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The political economy of Kazakhstan: a case of good economics, bad politics?

Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021

investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime … has actively projected market-friendly policies and attracted significant amounts of incoming investment. These policies … investment disputes that question the attachment to the rule of law. Moreover, the political regime remains strongly personalized …

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UK trades unions and the problems of collective action

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

This paper looks at the financial resources of trades unions in the UK, both updating previous work and attempting to understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. First order problems refer to the problems of initiating collective action and second order...

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Voting power and survival : the case of a ruling party

Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...

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Temporary jobs, employment protection and labor market performance

Cahuc, Pierre; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2001

Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...

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When is voting optimal?

Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2014

We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...

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Voting in hiring committees : which "almost" rule is optimal?

Baharad, Eyal; Danziger, Leif - 2018

We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, and that the Borda rule is hardly ever optimal. Furthermore, we show that only the...

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Immigrant voters, taxation and the size of the welfare state

Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2018

, we show that local governments responded to this migration shock with selective and persistent tax raises as well as …

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Pareto-improving structural reforms

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018

Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...

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The endogenous determination of minimum wage

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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A theory of immigration amnesties

Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2001

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...

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