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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? : the case of the freedom Party of Austria
Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743169
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Survey Evidence on Wage Rigidity and Unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1999
severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321754
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Are your wages set in Beijing?
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 9 (1995) 3, pp. 15-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001333723
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Unemployment insurance and the labor market
Zweimüller, Josef - 2018
The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790383
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Why do so many young American men commit crimes and what might we do about it?
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 10 (1996) 1, pp. 25-42
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001205737
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In honor of David Card - winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 11 (1997) 2, pp. 161-178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001222878
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It's better being an economist (but don't tell anyone)
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 13 (1999) 3, pp. 139-145
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001419292
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U.S. engineering in a global economy
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Salzman, Hal (ed.) - 2018
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- 1. The Engineering Labor Market -- Part I. Engineering Education …. Engineers and Labor Markets -- 7. The Influence of LicensingEngineers on Their Labor Market -- 8. Dynamics of Engineering Labor … Markets -- 9. Bridge to Permanent Immigration or Temporary Labor? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516711
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Science and engineering careers in the United States : an analysis of markets and employment
Freeman, Richard B. (contributor);  … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003734215
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Emerging labor market institutions for the twenty-first century
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Hersch, Joni (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480800