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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Citizenship and Employment – comparing two cool countries

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Over the last decades, both Canada and Sweden have liberalized citizenship regulations for permanent residents. During the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth have changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of...

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Business Cycle Synchronization Since 1880

Artis, Michael J; Chouliarakis, George; Harischandra, PKG - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper studies the international business cycle behaviour across 25 advanced and emerging market economies for which 125 years of annual GDP data are available. The picture that emerges is more fragmented than the one drawn by studies that focused on a narrower set of advanced market...

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Fixed-Mobile Integration

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Often, fixed-line incumbents also own the largest mobile network. We consider the effect of this joint ownership on market outcomes. Our model predicts that while fixed-to-mobile call prices to the integrated mobile network are more efficient than under separation, those to rival mobile networks...

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A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration (Revised Version)

Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

, technology, and welfare. Integration is pri- vately costly but is effective at coordinating production decisions; non-integration … is less costly, but coordinates relatively poorly. Output price influences the choice of ownership structure: integration … increases with the price level. At the same time, own- ership affects output, since integration is more productive than non-integration …

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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Abstract: This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive –...

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Culture: Persistence and Evolution

Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...

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Euro Area Government Bonds—Integration and Fragmentation During the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It …

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Integration, Regional Agglomeration and International Trade

Monfort, Philippe; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

then examine how both the integration and the agglomeration process inside a given country affects the pattern of …) both integration and agglomeration in one country reduces the likelihood to observe agglomeration in the partner country. …

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