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Immigration and Redistribution
Elsner, Benjamin; Concannon, Jeff - 2020
welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
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Social incentives matter: Evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
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Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270114
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A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
In this article, we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being is the Gross National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built...
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Government- and Market-Attitudes
Goff, Sandra; Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Reents, Alex; … - 2020
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...
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After You. Cognition and Health-Distribution Preferences
Brun, Martín; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2023
We analyse individuals' preferences vaccine-distribution schemes in the World, the EU, and their country of residence …
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'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?
Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009
Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...
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Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...
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The Case for Releasing the Young from Lockdown: A Briefing Paper for Policymakers
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
The UK is 'locked down' because of coronavirus (COVID-19). No clear exit strategy currently exists. This paper suggests …
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Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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