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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights … the argument is rooted in a unique framework to address majority-minority constellations. This "intergroup differentiation …
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the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … minority, towards majority voting or towards status-quo preserving rules, they only imperfectly reflect the distributions of …
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. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be …. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local markets over recruitment of competent candidates and local organizers … authoritarian and persistently "bad" leadership. Our model can be applied to other labor recruitment settings. …
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Over the last two decades there has been a growing debate on the supposedly negative relation between ethnic diversity, public goods production and social cohesion. Despite the amount of evidence, existing in-depth qualitative reviews conclude that the literature is inconclusive. Advancing upon...
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The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we...
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Kollektivistische Gesellschaften verfügen über ein höheres gemeinschaftsspezifisches Sozialkapital als … individualistische Gesellschaften. Dieses gesellschaftsspezifische Sozialkapital macht das Verlassen der Gemeinschaft kostspieliger, kann …
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