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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
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- work that corresponds with general dismissal legislation, but is sufficiently flexible to accommodate country …-specific legislation. Detailed information from a sample of 2,191 disputes that occurred in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009 is used …
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According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths' problem behaviour. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighbourhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioural problems in more...
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numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum policy, EU countries continue to differ widely in interpretation and … movements, illegal border crossings, and asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to the economics of refugee …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …
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has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU …
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In Europe, the competence for social security and the right to levy income tax lie with the country of employment in cross-border matters. This has two disadvantages. First, the Employment Principle distorts active persons' choice of place of work. Second, the employment-based regulation of...
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In this paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU countries vis-à-vis the … male and female workers in EU countries, we use a single cross section corresponding to 1999 as the basis of comparison …, hoping to uncover convergence trends by examining whether the EU-Us differentials in gender occupational segregation decline …
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This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … implications. Our analysis shows that the rise in EU unemployment over the 1970s and first part of the 1980s was due largely to …
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This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an...
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With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment … for South-North migration within the EU are rather ambiguous. …
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