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EU Blue Card: A promising tool among labour migration policies? A comparative analysis of selected countries
Bellini, Simona - 2016
In 2007 the Commission proposed a Directive aimed exclusively at third-country nationals moving to Europe for the purpose of highly qualified employment that would set up a harmonized entry procedure, lay down common residence conditions and facilitate mobility through Europe. The Directive,...
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Has the EU's Single Market Programme Fostered Competition? Testing for a Decrease in Markup Rations in EU Industries
Badinger, Harald - 2007
We use a panel approach, covering 10 EU Member States over the period 1981 to 1999, for each of three major industry groups (manufacturing, construction, and services) and 18 more detailed industries to test whether the EU's Single Market Programme has led to a reduction in firms' markups over...
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Institutions, the cost of capital, and long-run economic growth: Evidence from the 19th century capital market
Alquist, Ron; Cha, Ben - 2012
estimate the country-specific cost of capital. We find a negative relationship between institutions that protect property … rights and capital costs. Firms located in countries with weak institutions were charged a premium compared to similarly … risky firms located in countries with strong institutions, and this penalty appeared to be costly in terms of future growth …
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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We …
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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy: Sweden, 1810-2014
Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406159
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …
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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics
Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016
contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies … support infrastructure for start-ups in German academic institutions, these services are little known amongst their staff …
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Effects of institutional history and leniency on collusive corruption and tax evasion
Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen; Mittone, Luigi - 2018
We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes taxpayers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only...
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
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On the origin of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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