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This paper demonstrates that citizens in seven advanced industrialized democracies generally oppose more open immigration policies, but stand ready to admit individual immigrants. Using an experimental design, we demonstrate the applicability of the “person-positivity bias” to immigration...

<b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in spe­cific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exception­ally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we ex­ploit that German...</span>

<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Attorneys elected to the US House of Representatives and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law. This finding is based on the analysis of 54 votes at the federal...</span>

<span lang="EN-GB">This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and </span><span lang="EN-GB">health circles/courses</span><span lang="EN-GB"> on labour market out­comes of the firms’ employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...</span>

In contest models with symmetric valuations, equilibrium payoffs are positiveshares of the value of the prize. In contrast to a bargaining situation, theseshares sum to less than one because a share of the value is lost due to rent-dissipation. We ask: can every such division into payoff shares...

AbstractIncreasing the attractiveness of voting is often seen as a remedy for unequal par- ticipation  and the influence of special-interest  groups on public policy.  However, lower voting costs may also bring less informed citizens to the poll inviting  efforts to sway these voters. We...

Although the performance  effects of multitasking were analyzed intensively in the past, little  is known about the impact of the adoption time of multitasking on corporate performance. Possibly, the quantity of the reorganization is crucial and early movers experience a comparative...

Am 1. Juni 2008 befürwortete das Stimmvolk der Stadt Luzern ein neues Reglement über die Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum. Infolgedessen wurden Mitte Dezember 2008 sechs Überwachungskameras am Bahnhofplatz Luzern installiert und in Betrieb genommen. Der vorliegende Evaluationsbericht...