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Dying in an avalanche: Current risks and their valuation

Leiter, Andrea M.; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2008

This paper examines the influence of implicit information on willingness to pay (WTP) values for prevention of the risk of dying in an avalanche. We present the results of a contingent valuation (CV) study carried out in Austria in two different periods (fall 2004 and winter 2005). The...

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Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support policy in facilitating the labor market adjustment of new arrivals. Although these two cohorts entered Australia only...

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Improving the modeling of couples' labour supply

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong - 2005

We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...

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Economists on Darwin's theory of social evolution and human behaviour

Marciano, Alain - 2005

or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude of economists towards Darwin's theory of social evolution - an issue he … considered as central to his theory. We show that economists refer to and mention Darwin as a biologist and neglect or ignore his … theory of social and cultural evolution. Three types of reference are identified: first, economists view and quote Darwin as …

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Aid, catastrophes and the Samaritan's Dilemma

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwindt, Manijeh - 2008

This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country's level of mitigating activities. In order to test the theoretical propositions we analyse the...

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Charity hazard : A real hazard to natural disaster insurance?

Raschky, Paul A.; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - 2007

After the flooding in 2002 European governments provided billions of Euros of financial assistance to their citizens. Although there is no doubt that solidarity and some sort of assistance is reasonable, the question arises why these damages were not sufficiently insured. One explanation why...

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The overprotective parent: Bureaucratic agencies and natural hazard management

Raschky, Paul A. - 2007

Due to the public good character of protective measures against natural disasters events, their allocation is very often in the realm of bureaucratic and expert agencies. Based on the economic theory of bureaucracy the behavior of a bureau providing the good protection against natural hazards is...

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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA: A dynamic panel approach

Raschky, Paul A. - 2007

An analysis of the effects of natural hazards on society does not solely depend on a region's topographic or climatic exposure to natural processes, but the region's institutional resilience to natural processes that ultimately determines whether natural processes result in a natural hazard or...

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Uncertainty of Governmental Relief and the Crowding out of Insurance

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwarze, Reimund; Schwindt, Manijeh; … - 2010

This paper discusses the problem of crowding out of insurance by co-existing governmental relief programs - so-called 'charity hazard' - in a context of different institutional schemes of governmental relief in Austria and Germany. We test empirically whether an assured partial relief scheme (as...

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On the Channel and Type of International Disaster Aid

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwindt, Manijeh - 2009

Research suggests that a donor country's decision to provide post-disaster assistance is not only driven by the severity of a disaster and the resulting humanitarian needs in the recipient country but also by strategic considerations. We argue that the identification of the determinants of the...

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