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The effect of rehabilitative punishments on juvenile crime and labor market outcomes
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Mälkönen, Ville - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...
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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017
We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison population. The pardon created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and...
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Many rivers to cross: social identity, cognition and labour mobility in rural India
Michiels, Sébastien; Nordman, Christophe J.; Seetahul, … - 2021
By considering the case of rural South India, this study analyses whether individual skills and personality traits are able to facilitate labour market mobility of disadvantaged groups in the presence of constraining social structures. We use an individual panel dataset built on two household...
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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Income changes do not influence political participation: evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects …
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Employment effects of educational measures for work-injured people
Bach, Henning Bjerregaard (contributor);  … - 2007
"Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the …
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Disability in the welfare state : an unemployment problem in disguise?
Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...
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Statistical analysis of landmine fatalities in Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas; Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2011
resource allocation for mine action and labor market programmes and rehabilitation activities. -- landmine ; unexploded … ordinance ; pseudo panel data ; security and war ; rehabilitation ; Kurdistan …
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The impacts of vocational rehabilitation
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2014
Based on local variations in vocational rehabilitation (VR) priorities, we examine the impacts of alternative VR …
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