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#EleNão : economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro
Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2020 - This version: March 1, 2020
After more than one decade of sustained economic growth, accompanied by falling poverty and inequality, Brazil has been hit by an economic recession starting in 2014. This paper investigates the consequences of this labor market shock for the victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018...
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"The mother of all political problems"? : On asylum seekers and elections in Germany
Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2019
magnitude of this effect is found to be independent of the unemployment level. For the left, the positive effect of asylum … seekers tapers off with increases in unemployment, eventually becoming negative. The results suggest that the confluence of … high unemployment and high immigration would tilt the electoral landscape in Germany to the right. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310753
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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
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Political (self-)selection and competition : evidence from U.S. Congressional elections
Bose, Paul - 2021 - This version: October 2020
How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and general elections for the years 1998-2014 to study this question. I measure quality using previous legislative experience and the novel "identity match" quantifying how well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013335975
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Regional resilience to displacements : explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers
Nyström, Kristina - 2015
of displacement, in terms of, for example, unemployment duration, and earning losses is comprehensive (See e … characteristics of the regional economy refer to, for example, the size of the region, unemployment level and industrial turbulence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478297
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Lockdown length and strength : labour-market effects in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2021
considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …
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Job matching on non separated occupational labour markets
Stops, Michael - 2011 - Preliminary and not completed version
This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in this field are based on the crucial assumption of separate occupational labour markets. I outlined some theoretical considerations that occupational markets are probably not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548268
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Regulation, rents and 'iconic design' : rent acquisition by design in the tightly constrained London office market : paper prepared for 3rd UEA Meeting, Palermo and 52nd ERSA Congr...
Cheshire, Paul C.; Dericks, Gerard - 2013 - Preliminary draft v02
A 2008 paper investigating the Regulatory Tax (RT) on office development in Britain (Cheshire & Hilber, 2008) provided evidence of very tight restrictions on office space going back at least 50 years. It was also argued that the RT measure tended to underestimate the full costs of restrictive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532022
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Migration, allocation and re-allocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015
The aim of this paper is to analyse immigrants' mobility, both geographically and in terms of transitions into and out of the regional labour markets in Norway, in order to uncover the extent to which the workings of local labour markets contribute to integration versus exclusion. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481701
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485175