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Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on … through a popular vote. Using hourly Google Search data one week prior to the Irish Referendum of May 22 2015 and a simple …
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What Determines Preferences for an Electoral System? Evidence from a Binding Referendum
Riambau, Guillem; Stillman, Steven; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2017
of voters. In 1993, New Zealand had a binding electoral referendum on the same day as the general election where voters …
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Was Brexit Caused by the Unhappy and the Old?
Liberini, Federica; Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2017
On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the characteristics of individuals who were for and against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy...
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What Are You Voting For? Proximity to Refugee Reception Centres and Voting in the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum
Bratti, Massimiliano; Deiana, Claudio; Havari, Enkelejda; … - 2017
In December 2016, in the middle of the "European refugee crisis", the Italian electorate voted for a referendum on … in the case of Brexit, the referendum was largely perceived as an assessment of the Prime Minister's work and the … increased (1) the referendum turnout and (2) the proportion of anti-government votes. This evidence is consistent with the fact …
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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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The effect of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment: evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries
Cingano, Federico; Leonardi, Marco; Messina, Julián; … - 2009
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
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