To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses … to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business … liberal vs. conservative camps. -- consensus among economists …

effects into components attributable to selection on unobservables, and to changes in the way that displaced workers are …

fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness … considerations are absent or non-binding. Starting from a constrained equilibrium, an increase in the fairness parameter leads to …

'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far, the participants themselves have scarcely been asked about the (un)fairness …

about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards …

selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i ….e. they are not based on a fully specified selection model. The estimators are instrumental variable adaptations to the Powell … significantly longer times outside the unemployment state. There are strong indications of selection effects. …