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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 …

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Immigration and voting for the extreme right

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

-country correlation between the election success of ERW parties and immigration. Motivated by this evidence, we explore one potentially … important channel through which immigration may drive support for ERW parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters … features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316869

The measurement of labour content: A general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...

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The Measurement of Labour Content: A General Approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

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The measurement of labour content: A general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content for general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical foundations. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788917

Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement and social welfare. The trade-off of optimal UI between consumption smoothing and moral hazard requires accounting for the entire early retirement system, which often includes...

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated...

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Applying for jobs: Does ALMP participation help?

Lalive, Rafael; Morlok, Michael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2011

This paper calculates the impact of Active Labour Market Programmes through the use of three new indicators measuring the application performance of the unemployed. These indicators can be measured repeatedly and therefore allow the usage of Panel Regression methods, cancelling out any...

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Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workes. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but...

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