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Shifting Perceptions: Unpacking Public Support for Immigrant Workers Integration in the Labor Market

Albrizio, Silvia - 2024

This paper investigates public perceptions and support for policies aimed at integrating immigrant workers into domestic labor markets. Through large-scale surveys involving 6,300 respondents from Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom, we provide new insights into attitudes toward migrant...

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Public Perceptions of Canada’s Investment Climate

Lutz, Flora - 2024

Canada’s muted productivity growth during recent years has sparked concerns about the country’s investment climate. In this study, we develop a new natural language processing (NPL) based indicator, mining the richness of Twitter (now X) accounts to measure trends in the public perceptions...

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Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies: A Cross Country Survey

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2023

Building public support for climate mitigation is a key prerequisite to making meaningful strides toward decarbonization and achieving net-zero emissions. Using nationally representative, individual-level surveys for 28 countries, this paper identifies the current levels and drivers of support...

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Electoral System and Public Spending

Perotti, Roberto; Rostagno, Massimo V.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

We study the effects of electoral institutions on the size and composition of public expenditure in OECD and Latin American countries. We present a model emphasizing the distinction between purchases of goods and services, which are easier to target geographically, and transfers, which are...

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Unpleasant Surprises? Elections and Tax News Shocks

David, Antonio - 2023

Unanticipated changes in tax policy are likely to have different macroeconomic effects compared to anticipated changes due to several mechanisms, including fiscal foresight and policy uncertainty. It is therefore important to understand what drives such policy surprises. We explore the nature of...

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Income and democracy : Lipset's law revisited

Fayad, Ghada; Bates, Robert H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2012

We revisit Lipset?s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

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A Model of Sovereign Debt in Democracies

Alichi, Ali - 2008

sovereign debt is to maintain access to international capital markets. However, in a democracy, one generation may choose …

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Geopolitics and International Trade: The Democracy Advantage

Cevik, Serhan - 2024

to the question by analyzing the joint impact of democracy and geopolitical distance between countries with an augmented … distance in determining bilateral trade flows and that democracy fosters international trade and moderates the potential … negative impact of geopolitics. While the impact of democracy and its interaction with geopolitical distance are significant …

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What determines government spending multipliers?

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J. - 2012

This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...

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Public expenditure in the Slovak Republic : composition and technical efficiency

Grigoli, Francesco - 2012

Good practice suggests that budget allocations should reflect spending priorities and that spending should provide cost-effective delivery of public goods and services. This paper analyzes the composition of public expenditure in the Slovak Republic. It also assesses the relative efficiency of...

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