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The role of economic uncertainty in rising populism in the EU
Gozgor, Giray - 2020
This paper examines the impact of economic uncertainty shocks on the populist voting behavior in the panel dataset of 24 European Union (EU) countries for the period from 1980 to 2020. In so doing, we focus on the shares of total populism, right-wing populism, and left-wing populism votes as...
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Activated history : the case of the Turkish sieges of Vienna
Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2017 - This version: July 26, 2017
We study whether long-gone but activated history can shape social attitudes and behavior even after centuries. We exploit the case of the sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, when Turkish troops pillaged individual municipalities across East Austria. In 2005, Austrian right-wing populists started...
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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...
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Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding … is that migration, and particularly skilled immigration, is a strong and robust driver of productive knowledge diffusion …
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A positive theory of geographic mobility and social insurance
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente; … - 2002
This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary e.ects of...
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Effects of immigration on labour markets and government budgets : an overview
Leibfritz, Willi; O'Brien, Paul Sherlock; Dumont, … - 2003
immigration on labour markets and government budgets. It also discusses migration policies from an economic point of view. By … bringing together a bulk of international literature on labour market and fiscal effects of migration in a systematic way it … provides a framework for assessing the economic effects of migration and improving the knowledge base for migration policies. …
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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent...
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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …
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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy
Wildasin, David E. - 2014
paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
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