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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some … light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about …
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This paper examines the determinants of climate related disasters and attempts to estimate the presence of adaptive capacity in terms of per capita income and population density elasticities. We find evidence of adaptive capacity in a “weak” form both in terms of income and population...
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This paper explores potential explanations behind the educational gap between young natives and immigrants using two … measures, negative attitudes towards immigrants and networking, which may influence natives and immigrants differently. The … that these parameters may influence high and uneducated workers as well as immigrants and natives differently, creating …
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also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …
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effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by … associated with higher skills and status when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor market. As a consequence of this …
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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups … immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the discriminatory part vanishes completely, suggesting that … the wage difference between immigrants and natives in Austria can be to a large extent explained. Furthermore, we account …
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