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On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...
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We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...
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attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … are more attuned to populist statements. Key to understanding the misperception-populism relationship are strong gender …
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immigration to the United States. We approach this study from two different dimensions to document some of the forces driving this … change in the sex-ratio. The first approach, focusing on changes between birth cohorts, demonstrates that immigration is …
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the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New measures of labour market flows by migrant status uncover both …
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In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population … planning has been abandoned. In regard to effects on population size, it seems like immigration policies were set by a sorcerer …
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The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a … description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the … contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …
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greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
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