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Property rights to the world's (linear) ocean fisheries in customary international law

Barrett, Scott - 2023

I model the ocean as an array of lines set within a two-dimensional frame, and show how the Exclusive Economic Zone emerged as an equilibrium in customary international law. I find that custom codifies the efficient Nash equilibrium of enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and...

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis

Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

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Persistent states : lessons for Scottish devolution and independence

Muscatelli, V. Anton; Roy, Graeme; Trew, Alex - 2022

dynamic state formation process in the context of Scotland within the UK. First, we review the recent research in economic … history on the persistence and evolution of such fundamentals. Second, we consider the history of Scotland both before and … fundamental persistence for current debates on the place of Scotland within the UK. …

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Caring for carers? : the effect of public subsidies on the wellbeing of unpaid carers

Costa-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, … - 2022

evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free …

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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...

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What if the UK had joined the euro in 1999? : An empirical evaluation using a Global VAR

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2005

This paper attempts to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of counterfactual scenarios using macroeconometric models. As an application we consider UK entry to the euro. Entry involves a long-term commitment to restrict UK nominal exchange rates and interest rates to be the same as...

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Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction

Bryson, Alex (contributor); Cappellari, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2005

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...

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Optimal rent extraction in pre-industrial England and France : default risk and monitoring costs

Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2005

Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, England changed its system of raising revenues from tax farming, combined with the granting of monopolies, to direct collection within the government administration. Rents were then transferred from tax farmers and monopolists to the central government...

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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents

Englmaier, Florian (contributor); … - 2008

Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...

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