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The roots of regional trust
Hauser, Christoph; Tappeiner, Gottfried; Walde, Janette F. - 2015
Social trust is increasingly seen as an important determinant of economic growth and social prosperity in regions and nations. Even in a comparatively homogeneous area such as Europe, there are stark sub-national differences in levels of generalized trust. It is thus of crucial importance to...
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Market potential and border effects in Europe
Pfaffermayr, Michael; Huber, Peter; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2004
We estimate a linear approximation of the market potential function derived in geography and trade models. Using a spatial econometric estimation approach, border effects can be identified by a differential impact of neighboring regions' purchasing power, depending on whether two regions are...
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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?
Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011
Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...
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Socio-economic and macro-financial determinants and spatial effects on European private health insurance markets
Mureșan, Gabriela Mihaela; Dragoş, Cristian Mihai; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 56, pp. 290-307
There is a great variation in the development of private health insurance (PHI) between European countries. Using data provided by Insurance Europe, World Bank and Standard and Poor's for 30 European countries, our research investigates the main factors influencing the size of these markets. In...
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Austrian outbound foreign direct investment in Europe : a spatial econometric study
Fischer, Manfred M.; Pintar, Nico; Sargant, Benedikt - 2016
The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the various dimensions of this phenomenon. Two main streams of research have emerged in the literature. The first analyses the economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the...
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Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - 2014 - First draft July 2011, This draft: January 2014
effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants … differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. …
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Crime and Punishment. Crime Rates and Prison Population in Europe
Gruszczyńska, Beata; Gruszczyński, Marek - 2021
We present the attempt of finding association between crime level and prison population across European countries. We … offer justification that is methodologically based on correlations and regressions of country incarceration rates on crime … rates, with the reference to governance indicators. We use data on crime and prisoner rates by offence from Eurostat and …
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Crime and European labour market policy
Ochsen, Carsten - 2005
, whereas active labour market policy appears not to be linked to crime. The combination of a shorter benefit duration and … higher replacement rate, like in the Nordic countries, seems to be a "crime reducing" combination. -- Unemployment ; labour …
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Modern day slavery : what drives human trafficking in Europe?
Hernández, Diego; Rudolph, Alexandra - 2011 - Rev. November 2011
At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address...
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
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