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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Crime

Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Since the 1960s both crime rates and the share of immigrants among the American population have more than doubled …. Almost three quarters of Americans believe immigration increases crime, yet existing academic research has shown no such … economically meaningful impact of immigration on crime. Consistent with the economic model of crime this effect is strongest for …

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Causal Relations via Econometrics

Zaman, Asad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Applied econometric work takes a superficial approach to causality. Understanding economic affairs, making good policy decisions, and progress in the economic discipline depend on our ability to infer causal relations from data. We review the dominant approaches to causality in econometrics, and...

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New Reform Strategies and Welfare Participation in Canada

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Heterogeneous welfare reform policies and timing of those policies among Canadian provinces reveal new information about the roles of different policy tools in accounting for declines in welfare participation. Work requirements, diversion, earnings exemptions, and time limits—referred to as...

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Neighborhood effects on secondary school performance of Latino and African American youth : evidence from a natural experiment in Denver

Galster, George C.; Santiago, Anna; Stack, Lisa; … - In: Journal of urban economics 93 (2016), pp. 30-48

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Labor force participation rate and economic growth: observations for Turkey

KARGI, Bilal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Although some discussions about the relation between population and the economic growth are made for a long time, today there is a general opinion that the population growth has positive relation with the economic growth. This opinion is also supported by the empirical studies. Despite there is...

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Challenges in implementation of the maternity leave in Kosovo

Ramosaj, Argjiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study aims to analyze the implementation of Labor Law in Kosovo, with a particular attention towards Article 49th which regulates the issue of maternity leave. Labor Law in Kosovo has been in force only for a year, and as such it has been a matter of discussion because of the challenges...

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Labor earnings and Psychological well-being: An Empirical Analysis

Grimani, Katerina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The starting point of this paper is the idea that individuals are characterized by hierarchical behavior. The theory of hierarchical needs implies that individuals have a priority approach to psychological well-being. This means that the most important needs must be satisfied first before the...

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Fear itself: The effects of distressing economic news on birth outcomes

Carlson, Kyle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

I use new administrative data on mass layoffs and plant closings to study the effects of distressing economic news. Exposure to stressful events during pregnancy can impair fetal development. I find that announcement of impending job losses leads to a transient decrease in the mean birth weight...

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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Our paper introduces the dimension of social psychology in a model of efficiency wages and gender diversity. In this context, we show that women earn lower wages than men but provide in return relatively less effort. Therefore in order to increase women's productivity, the firm increases their...

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Does Team Telecommuting Affect Productivity? An Experiment

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Saral, Krista Jabs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Telecommuting policies have been increasingly adopted by employers. The benefits of telecommuting from the employer's perspective include direct cost-saving from not having to house employees in an office and indirect cost-saving through reduced turnover associated with increased employee...

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