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The effect of tourism on crime in Italy: A dynamic panel approach

Biagi, Bianca; Brandono, Maria Giovanna; Detotto, Claudio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-25, pp. 1-24

greater amount of crime than non-tourist ones in the short and long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à … la Becker (Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach, 1968) and Enrlich (Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A … test whether total crime in Italy is affected by the presence of tourists. Findings confirm the initial intuition of a …

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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sander, Seth G.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

's log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live …

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Transnational social mobility of minorities: A comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

Pakistanis) who immigrated to the USA are compared to the corresponding majority groups from the same country (e.g., the British …

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Affirmative action and university fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-29

Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, minority graduation rates increased by 4.35...

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Incarceration and Crime: Lessons from California’s Public Safety Realignment Reform

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 4, pp. 40-46

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No Way Out: Crime, Punishment and the Capitalization of Power

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Crime, Law and Social Change 61 (2014) 3, pp. 251-271

the 1930s and the 2000s, unemployment increased sharply, but crime and the severity of punishment, instead of rising …

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Testing the New Keynesian Model on U.S. and Euro Area Data

Juselius, Mikael - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-24, pp. 1-26

I apply the Johansen and Swensen (1999, 2004) method of testing exact rational expectations within the cointegrated VAR (Vector Auto-Regressive) model, to testing the New Keynesian (NK) model. This method permits the testing of rational expectation systems, while allowing for non-stationary...

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Uncertainty and capacity constraints: Reconsidering the aggregate production function

Gracia, Eduard - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-19, pp. 1-50

The CobbDouglas function is today one of the most widely adopted assumptions in economic modeling, yet both its theoretical and empirical bases have long been under question. This paper builds an alternative function on very different (albeit also neoclassical) microfoundations aimed at both...

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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17

Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...

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More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States

Neumark, David; Salas, J. M. Ian; Wascher, William - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-26

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (Rev Econ Stat 92:945-964, 2010) and Allegretto et al. (Ind Relat 50:205-240, 2011)...

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