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The paper focuses on exploring people’s attitudes towards immigration in 26 European countries based on the European … Social Survey fourth round database. Outcomes of the empirical analysis show that the attitudes of European people towards … attitudes of people towards country institutions and socio-economic security. The studies results provide empirical evidence …
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are valid in explaining people’s attitudes towards immigration …The paper is aiming to clarify the possible determinants of peoples’ attitudes towards immigrants depending on their … personal characteristics as well as attitudes towards households’ socio-economic stability and a country's institutions relying …
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measures for improving peoples’ attitudes to immigration and to ethnically diverse human capital that support future economic …. We analysed peoples’ attitudes to migration in 23 European countries based on the micro-data of the European Social … Survey fourth round database. The outcomes of the empirical analysis show that European peoples’ attitudes toward immigrants …
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people’s attitudes towards immigration. …The paper aims to clarify the possible determinants of peoples’ attitudes towards immigrants depending on their … personal characteristics as well as attitudes towards households’ socio-economic stability and a country's institutions relying …
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We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
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The paper examines the factors that are related to attitudes towards immigrants in Europe, with a particular focus on … the role of institutional trust in shaping these attitudes. We go one step further compared to previous studies by … trust is important for both groups, while trust in institutions is more strongly related to the attitudes among ethnic …
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Rational politicians are interested in judicial independence (JI) in order to make their promises credible. But if politicians preferences deviate from the dicta of the judiciary, they also have incentives to renege on judicial independence. These two conflicting aspects are measured by two...
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It is argued that an independent judiciary is a necessary condition for both individual liberty and economic prosperity. After having surveyed the literature dealing with how to arrange for an independent judiciary, the authors derive some additional policy implications by drawing on two...
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Judicial independence is not only a necessary condition for the impartiality of judges, it can also endanger it: judges that are independent could have incentives to remain uninformed, become lazy or even corrupt. It is therefore often argued that judicial independence and judicial...
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Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...
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