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Populism and the skill-content of globalization : evidence from the last 60 years
Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022
– especially for right-wing populism in Europe – after the great recession of 2007-10. The second novelty is that when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440433
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Estimating long-run incarceration rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These … series are constructed as a share of adults rather than the entire population, and I discuss why the latter can be misleading …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …
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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022
We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288023
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050798
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The determinants and effects of social connectedness in Europe
Bailey, Michael; Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; … - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social connectedness declines strongly in geographic distance and at country borders. Historical borders and unions - such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and East/West Germany...
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The rate of return on everything, 1870-2015
Jordà, Òscar; Knoll, Katharina; Kuvshinov, Dmitry; … - 2018
This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the...
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Land, men, taxation : an application to pre-modern China and Europe ; Erik Jones' European miracle revisited
Blankart, Charles B. - 2014
taxes were conducive for Europe's economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these …. China's contiguous geography allows bureaucrats to establish an autocratic tax system whereas Europe's split geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391803
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Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact
Beetsma, Roel (contributor); Oksanen, Heikki (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623944
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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009
We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....
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Immigration, fertility, and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965875