The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU...

This paper shows that an integration policy aimed at unemployed adult immigrants generated positive spillovers for their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland's 1999 reform that introduced integration plans-a new approach for allocating...

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...

In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

This Palgrave Pivot surveys facts and cases exhibiting and exemplifying corruption in sport. The standard economic theory (economics of crime, game theory) is introduced alongside the economic methods (sanctions, etc.) which are currently derived from it to combat corrupt sport and their...

1. Liberty, Human Nature, Individualism, and Property Rights -- 2. The Machiavellians -- 3. Hobbes and Locke on Human Nature; Locke on Property Rights -- 4. The Enlightenment -- 5. The Nineteenth Century -- 6. The Austrian School -- 7. The London School -- 8. What Went Wrong and What is to be Done?.

1.What is ‘Fair’: different opinions -- 2.Ethics: Human rights and basic needs -- 3.Concepts derived from the Human Rights: Living Wage and Living Income -- 4.Fair Wages, what does it mean? -- 5.Are market and equilibrium prices ethical? -- 6 Living Wage, Living Income and Fair Price further...

Where do we stand when it comes to Sustainable Financial Markets? -- Ethical Standards beyond Monetary Policy: Approaches to a Philosophical Foundation -- Fundamental rights in the core business of the ECB: No issue?! Experience with the EU petition 429/2017 -- On the role of the ECB in...