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diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
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Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting …. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well … global terrorism and crime, and show that worries about terrorism are driven by similar determinants as those about crime …
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We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as...
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approach is exemplified by Germany, where the federal division of labor allows the lower levels of government very little …
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that both in Switzerland and in the recent reform proposal contributions do depend on income, and it expresses the so …
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existing evidence from Germany and Switzerland and are used to develop hypotheses on the future development of the systems. … Switzerland, where equal per-capita contributions are used. From a public-choice perspective it is natural to ask whether the …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …
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Austria and Germany assessing the impact of road charging (RC). The pricing policy measure is introduced for the private …
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This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For … violent crimes, however, the effect of the clear-up rate and unemployment are found to be insignificant. -- Crime ; deterrence …
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This paper argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, Somali piracy is likely to increase if Somalia's domestic stability is improved, and that naval counter-piracy efforts had limited and unpredicted effects. To make this argument we analyze the underlying factors driving piracy off the coast...
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