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Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2005

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition or the elected policy maker in a citizen-...

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Politics of Randomness

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2002

The main drawback of the public-policy contest is that the notion of contest success function, a crucial component of the contest model, does not have micro-foundations and, therefore, the random behavior of the government seems ad-hoc. In the present paper we propose a partial micro-foundation...

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Economic model of regenerative agriculture and factors of agri-food system change

Trifan, Daniela; Toaders, George; Enea, Cătălin-Ioan; … - 2021

The basis of regenerative agriculture is represented by its main element, namely the soil. Ensuring good soil health will lead to many beneficial effects on agricultural ecosystems. Among the main beneficial effects of soil health we can list the management of groundwater resources and...

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Reurbanisierung im Kontext einer neuen Unübersichtlichkeit regionaler Entwicklungsmuster: Das Beispiel der Stadtregion Stuttgart

Schmitz-Veltin, Ansgar - In: Reurbanisierung in baden-württembergischen Stadtregionen, (pp. 77-95). 2015

For decades suburbanization was the most significant trend in intraregional migration in Germany. But during the past few years city centres have gained net immigration from urban hinterlands. This development is being discussed as re-urbanization. Using the example of Stuttgart, the paper...

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How do strong social ties shape youth migration trajectories (using data from the Russian on-line social network www.vk.com)

Zamyatina, Nadezhda; Yashunsky, Alexey - 2013

migrations between cities shows us that the force of strong ties is sometimes greater than the force of a distance or of the … agglomeration effect: some very distant and small cities are tied closely by migrations flows. We tend to explain the high level of … migrations flows moved to the Russian capital and to the region centers. Yet, excluding such flows, we can see the concentration …

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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930

Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009

account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by … the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest …

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Forming of the new ethnic image of St.Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton; Zhitin, Dmitriy - 2015

Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...

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The effects of migration and remittances in rural Moldova

Hristev, Eugene; Mincu, Georgeta; Sandu, Maya; … - 2009

Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total...

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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...

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Wohnstandortmobilität im gesellschaftlichen und demographischen Wandel: Einführung

Zakrzewski, Philipp; Schmitz-Veltin, Ansgar - In: Schneller, öfter, weiter? Perspektiven der …, (pp. 72-78). 2011

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