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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693557
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619334
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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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Une analyse qualitative de l'offre statistique de l'INSÉÉ : travaux préparatoires pour la construction d'une banque de données d'emploi régional
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We often present data bank building (output-data calculation) as an only quantitative work. We think that economist should consider the context where his input-data were built, before to use them in his own data bank (we suggest to make an institutional and a bibliometric analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835539
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Working Profiles and Employment Regimes in European Panel Perspective
Muffels, Ruud; Fouarge, Didier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Using longitudinal information on labour market participation we analyse the dynamics of unemployment in Europe. We focus in particular on individuals with a poor attachment to the labour market. The countries under scrutiny are clustered into four ideal-typical welfare regimes. Overall, a...
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Do countries matter? Explaining the variation in the use of numerical flexibility arrangements across European companies using a Multi-level model
Chung, Heejung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Do countries matter, especially compared to other aspects that affect the flexibility behaviours of companies? Many studies on the labour market assume that there are country differences, cross-national variances, and that it is a crucial factor in explaining the actual practices of the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836421
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Croissance et Emploi en Afrique Subsaharienne:Evidence théorique et Faits Empiriques
Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Abstract This paper provides a theoretical and empirical survey on the link between employment and growth in sub-Saharan Africa countries. Trough this study we shed the light on the majors works that have been done on the subject concerning sub-Saharan Africa and emphasize some stylized facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837021
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A survey on intra-household models and evidence
Xu, Zeyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Intra-household models have achieved significant theoretical development and received considerable empirical support within the past decade. This paper is a comprehensive and updated survey on three most influential categories of intra-household models: the Nash cooperative bargaining settings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837232
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Experience vs. Obsolescence: A Vintage-Human-Capital Model
Kredler, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I combine an infinite-horizon version of Ben-Porath’s (1967) model of human-capital accumulation with a vintage structure as in Chari & Hopenhayn (1991). Different skill levelsinside a vintage are complementary in production. Vintage-specific human capital is accumulated based on workers’...
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