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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448577
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870139
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Taxation and the Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054134
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The Economic, Legal and Ethical Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054141
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Economic Protectionism and the Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist and journalist. One of his classic works is The Candlemakers' Petition, which uses the reductio ad absurdum philosophical technique to dismantle the arguments the French protectionists put forth to protect French industry in the mid-nineteenth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054144
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Financial Bailouts and the Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French thinker who did most of his writing in the last six years of his life. One of his major contributions to economic thought was his application of opportunity cost to a wide range of economic policies. The present paper uses the Bastiat approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054176
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Frédéric Bastiat as an Accountant
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) is primarily known for his writings in economics, especially in the area of international trade. However, he worked as an accountant in his early years and some of his writings take an accounting approach. This paper will examine the influence of accounting on his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054177
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The Relevance of Frédéric Bastiat to Twenty-First Century Economic Thought
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a journalist and economic theorist within the French liberal school. He is best known for his writings on free trade and protectionism. Although he has written several classic short treatises, his work has been ignored by most modern economists. This paper will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054178
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Dismantling the 'Jungle' : Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France
Vertier, Paul - 2018
Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the Calais “Jungle” to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France affected the results of the 2017 presidential election. Using an instrumental variables approach that relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920347
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Dismantling the 'Jungle' : Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France
Vertier, Paul; Viskanic, Max; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2021
Large migrant inflows have spurred anti-immigrant sentiment, but can small inflows have a different impact? We exploit the redistribution of migrants after the dismantling of the \Calais Jungle" in France to study the impact of the exposure to few migrants, which we estimate using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212627