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Attitudes towards immigrants and the integration of ethnically diverse societies

PAAS, TIIU; Halapuu, Vivika - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

The paper focuses on exploring people’s attitudes towards immigration in 26 European countries based on the European … Social Survey fourth round database. Outcomes of the empirical analysis show that the attitudes of European people towards … attitudes of people towards country institutions and socio-economic security. The studies results provide empirical evidence …

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Attitudes towards immigrants and the integration of ethnically diverse societies

PAAS, Tiiu; HALAPUU, Vivika - In: Eastern Journal of European Studies 3(2) (2012) December, pp. 161-176

people’s attitudes towards immigration. …The paper aims to clarify the possible determinants of peoples’ attitudes towards immigrants depending on their … personal characteristics as well as attitudes towards households’ socio-economic stability and a country's institutions relying …

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Is institutional trust related to the attitudes towards immigrants in Europe? A study of majority and minority population

PAAS, TIIU; Halapuu, Vivika; Tammaru, Tiit - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

The paper examines the factors that are related to attitudes towards immigrants in Europe, with a particular focus on … the role of institutional trust in shaping these attitudes. We go one step further compared to previous studies by … trust is important for both groups, while trust in institutions is more strongly related to the attitudes among ethnic …

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Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years On: Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators

Voigt, Stefan; Gutmann, Jerg; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2014

Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...

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Growth Propensities under Capitalism and Profit-Oriented Market Socialism

Yunker, James Arthur - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 9 (2012) 3, pp. 367-394

This research mathematically investigates the hypothesis of slow economic growth under capitalism, relative to potential economic growth under a profit-oriented market socialist alternative. The hypothesis is examined within two different economic models: (1) a current-period model that looks at...

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Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises.

Pelikan, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

The search for growth-promoting policies is found to demand knowledge of how growth depends upon actions of entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of...

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Self-Serving Dictators and Economic Growth

Haile, D.; Sadrieh, A.; Verbon, H.A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth.We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view.We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...

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What do we know about the link between growth and institutions?

Spreafico, Marta - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2010

The link between economic growth and institutions has been studied for more than ten years. Our goal is to take stock of this literature in order to identify more precise and conscious directions for future research. We first introduce the reference framework and by means of a simple comparative...

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The Economic Costs of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Pacific Islands

Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...

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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth-Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2005

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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