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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2004
Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...
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The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: violence and public opinion in the second intifada
Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - 2008
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
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Trespassing the threshold of relevance: Media exposure and opinion polls of the Sweden democrats, 2006-2010
Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders - 2011
In September 2010 the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), crossed the electoral threshold to the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) for the first time with 5.7 percent of the total votes. The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion...
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Hostility toward immigration in Spain
Martínez i Coma, Ferran; Duval-Hernández, Robert - 2009
This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also regarding admittance policies and the rights and benefits to grant to foreigners. In general, Spaniards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268941
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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a …. The initial positive subjective wellbeing effect of the Brexit vote was particularly pronounced for male and older … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …
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International Student Applications in the United Kingdom after Brexit
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Romiti, Agnese - 2021
(henceforth, Brexit) has impacted international student applications in the United Kingdom. Using administrative data spanning … from 2013 through 2019, along with a quasi-experimental approach, we find evidence of Brexit curtailing the growth rate of … student exchanges to research, development and growth, further research on the implications of Brexit for UK universities and …
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262398
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...
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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...
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