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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …

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The market for protection and the origin of the state

Konrad, Kai A.; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2005

We examine a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-profit entrepreneurs (kings, kleptocrats, or mafia dons). Though selfgovernance is best for the population, it faces problems of long-term viability. Typically, in providing security the...

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Overprotected politicians

Frey, Bruno S. - 2007

This paper argues that politicians are overprotected. The costs of political assassination differ systematically depending on whether a private or a public point of view is taken. A politician attributes a very high (if not infinite) cost to his or her survival. The social cost of political...

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Sicherheit als Wirtschaftsgut

Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2003

Sicherheit ist ein Wirtschaftsgut, weil Sicherheit nützlich und knapp ist. Dieses Gut kann vom Staat als auch von Privaten bereitgestellt werden. Das Paper untersucht (a) den Zusammenhang zwischen Kriminalstrafe und Sicherheit und (b) die Privatisierung der Kriminalitätskontrolle. Es werden...

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The business of security and the transformation of the state

Deitelhoff, Nicole - 2009

The field of security policy seems to have undergone dramatic changes in the last decades. Under the broad umbrella of a turn to security governance, one can observe trends of an internationalization and privatization of security. Of these trends, one seems to stand out, that is the increasing...

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Securing the state, undermining democracy: internationalization and privatization of western militaries

Deitelhoff, Nicole; Geis, Anna - 2009

Changes in the field of security since the 1990s triggered off a number of still continuing military transformations in liberal democracies. Since their armed forces were designed for the purposes of the bipolar Cold war security constellation, they have been “redesigned” according to the...

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Transformation of the state? Reactions to the privatization of security in Great Britain

Joachim, Jutta - 2010

Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have increasingly received attention from International Relations scholars. While most of the research has thus far been conducted with the aim to define the actor, assess the consequences of the services they perform for states' monopoly over the...

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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … sufficient to outweigh intensive margin adjustments so that workers in these sectors experienced an improvement in real monthly …

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Sicherheitsindustrie. HWWI (Teil A): Sicherheit – eine volkswirtschaftliche Perspektive. Berenberg Bank (Teil B): Die Sicherheitsindustrie – Geburt eines Wachstumsmarktes

Bräuninger, Michael; Freese, Julia; Otto, Alkis Henri; … - 2008

Sicherheit spielt für fast alle Menschen eine wichtige Rolle und stellt ein Grundbedürfnis dar. Kriminalität und Terror stellen die Bürger und den Staat daher vor die schwierige Herausforderung, eine richtige Abwägung zwischen Prävention und Abschreckung auf der einen Seite und Freiheit...

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Private Security in Guatemala: The Pathway to Its Proliferation

Argueta, Otto - 2010

It has become commonplace to explain the proliferation of private security services as causally determined by crime rates and institutional weakness. By contrast, this paper ar-gues that another explanatory factor needs to be emphasized, especially for post-war so-cieties: continuity and change...

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