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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …
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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984869
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2016
system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074198
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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
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Happiness and Public Policy : A Procedural Perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023
We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the...
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Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities Through Vocational Education
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2011
panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and …
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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on face-to-face interactions carried out through international business visits. The results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131167
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Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2011
disabilities on disaggregated labour choices. The first seven waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey …
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