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Minority voting and long-term decisions
Gersbach, Hans; Fahrenberger, Theresa - 2008
In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264290
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Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas; Riezman, Raymond - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 17-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696620
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Minority Voting and Long-term Decisions
Fahrenberger, Theresa; Gersbach, Hans - 2007
In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753134
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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268747
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Am treffendsten als "dezentralisierter Einheitsstaat" zu charakterisieren: Italien: Regionalismus, Regionen mit Normal- und mit Sonderstatut
Merkel, Wolfgang - In: Der Bürger im Staat: Zeitschrift für Multiplikatoren … 37 (1987) 2, pp. 102-108
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The nature and extent of job separations in Germany: some new evidence from SOEP
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
findings of the study suggest, among others, that minority group status is important in characterising job separations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274176
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University differences in the graduation of minorities in STEM fields: Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Hotz, Vincent Joseph - 2013
leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293145
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268355
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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266002
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Improving Credibility by Delegating Judicial Competence: The Case of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Voigt, Stefan; Ebeling, Michael; Blume, Lorenz - 2004
It is argued that government credibility is an important resource and that it can be improved by delegating decision-making competence beyond the nation-state. It is hypothesized that such delegation should result in higher income and growth. Some former British colonies retained the Judicial...
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