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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128229
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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124075
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Tradable Immigration Quotas
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2011
externality for all those (individuals and governments) who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123601
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (Traqs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2015
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013581
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2014
The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042965
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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
Joffily, Mateus - 2011
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available. The application of sanctions activates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127956
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Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence : A Survey
Entorf, Horst - 2012
This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106951
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Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of … on job finding probabilities. Our results suggest that each type of sanction leads to an increased transition rate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074831
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Under Heavy Pressure : Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2017
cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second sanction of the same type within one year implies a complete benefit … unobservables into account. Our results suggest that both the first and the second sanction increase the probability of finding a … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957479
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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
DeAngelo, Gregory - 2018
sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918262