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Norwegian rhapsody? : the political economy benefits of regional integration
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2015
This paper investigates whether joint economic and political integration leads to larger economic benefits than just economic integration. The identification strategy rests on the fact that Norway, at the time of the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union (EU), had successfully completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281605
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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results in not fully developed yet institutional infrastructure for managing especially the immigrants flow. In this paper we structure all existing data and other pieces of information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196429
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Should i stay or should i go? : Romanian migrants during transition and enlargements
Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - 2014
, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … prefer to develop adjustment strategies in their destination countries. Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457404
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401056
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Increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy and male medical circumcision in HIV hyperendemic countries : a cost-benefit analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; … - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...
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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016
We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
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On criteria for evaluating social programs
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts
Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020
Governments often aim to influence the amount and sectoral allocation of private investments through explicit or implicit subsidies. The rules used to select projects to benefit from subsidies may vary, depending on the policy objective. This paper develops a general framework to allocate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239109
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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