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Does Economic Freedom Really Kill? On the Association between ‘Neoliberal’ Reform and Homicide Rates
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012
and other types of crime. Using a panel of the 50 US states observed between 1981 and 2005 and the Economic Freedom Index … measured by this index and homicide rates. The results nevertheless show that other types of crime decrease with liberalizing … spending or tax reforms. Effects of liberalizing tax reforms in particular may spill over from less violent crime to lower …
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Homicide and social media : global empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a...
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Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated? : the role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime
Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana; Iturbe, Nayely - 2023
When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites … has already been killed, the arrest of a member of organized crime significantly increases the chance that an incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549898
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931419
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966443
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What determines the share of labour in national income? : a cross-country analysis
Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - 2012
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548636
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What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis
Guerriero, Marta - 2012
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104675
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919512
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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144026
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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror
Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...
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