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The recent financial crisis 2007-2009 was the longest and the deepest recession since the Great Depression of 1930. The crisis that originated in subprime mortgage markets was spread and amplified through globalised financial markets and resulted in severe debt crises in several European...
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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. Examining the strike activity and unionization rates of some 600 nonunion municipal police departments from 1972 to 1978, this … rights for municipal police. However, these strikes do not increase the unionization propensities of these police departments …
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This paper examines potential tradeoffs between research methods in answering important questions versus providing more cleanly identified estimates on problems that are potentially of lesser interest. The strengths and limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental methods are discussed and...
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data from the Boston Police Department. Consistent with preference-based discrimination, our baseline results demonstrate …
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between the racial composition of a city's police force and the racial patterns of arrests and crime. Increases in the number … of minority police are associated with significant increases in arrests of whites, but have little impact on arrests of … police officers has a less clear-cut impact on crime rates. It appears that own-race policing may be more effective in …
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In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effect that the provision of an arbitration statute has on the … wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political … police officers, and individual level data on police officers from Decennial Censuses. The empirical results from both data …
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forfeited assets influenced crime and police incentives by taking advantage of pre-existing differences in state level civil … places where the federal law allowed police to retain more of their seized assets than state law previously allowed …. Equitable sharing also led police agencies to reallocate their effort toward the policing of drug crimes. We estimate that drug …
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attain that goal. I provide evidence from the Los Angeles Police Department to show that officers appear to have responded to …
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We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009 …-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities - occurred in the mid-2000s. We show these measures impacted on …
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