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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime

Traub, Stefan - 2006

contributions for the original citizens. As an empirical example, we employ Germany?s crime statistic in order to assess the … efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. …

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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - 2010

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives

Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012

Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...

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Estimating the welfare costs of very high inflations and hyperinflations

Benati, Luca; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2024

We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic's hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel,...

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Closing in on Closure. Occupational Closure and Temporary Employment in Germany

Stuth, Stefan - 2017

There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...

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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good

Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …

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Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan: Strategien, Perspektiven, Konsequenzen

Schmidt, Peter (contributor) - 2008

Engagement der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft reduziert werden kann, im Gegenteil: Der Ausbau von Streitkräften und Polizei …

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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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