Title:Divorce Risk Factors and Their Variation Over Time in Spain
Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio; MARTÍNEZ-PASTOR, Juan-IgnacioDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to analyse the determinants of marriage dissolution in Spain and their variation over time for women married between 1949 and 2006. Data are drawn from the Survey of Fertility, Family and Values ...
Title:Do all Good Things Go Together? Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion
Author(s):FREYBURG, Tina; GRIMM, Sonja; LEININGER, JuliaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The promotion of democracy in post-conflict or transition countries often does not prove to be successful. Trying to achieve peace, security, prosperity and other desirable goals at the same time often leads to conflicting ...
Title:Do Amenities and Diversity Encourage City Growth? A Link Through Skilled Labor
Author(s):POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The share of skilled workers in urban populations has steadily
increased since 1970 in US metropolitan areas, but more in some cities
than in others. A higher concentration of skills is a sought after asset for
cities ...
Title:Do Chinese exports crowd-out African goods? An econometric Analysis by country and sector
Author(s):GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Trade is one of the key channels through which Chinese economic growth affects the world economy and especially developing countries. African manufacturing sector is confined to few traditional sectors. Even if at times, ...
Title:Do Chinese SOEs and Private Companies Differ in Their Foreign Location Strategies?
Author(s):AMIGHINI, Alessia; RABELLOTTI, Roberta; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We empirically analyze the host-country determinants of Chinese outbound foreign direct investments (ODI) in the period from 2003 to 2008, using disaggregated data by country and sector and distinguishing between State-owned ...
Title:Do Conditional Benefits Reduce Equilibrium Unemployment?
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although unconditional unemployment benefits destroy jobs in competitive and noncompetitive labor markets, conditional benefits can spur job growth in noncompetitive labor markets. Unconditional benefits reduce the penalty ...
Title:Do Consumers and Businesses Need a New Architecture of Consumer Law? A thought-provoking impulse
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper is a translation of the Gutachten prepared for the 69. Deutschen Juristentag to be held in September 2012. It pleads for a separate consumer law code outside private law codifications. The benchmarks are: rethinking ...
Title:Do Consumers Care about How Prices Are Set?
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, MarioDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing
schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price
variation, and the probability of being rationed. ...
Title:Do Deliberative and Participatory Processes Matter? Crafting trust in political institutions
Author(s):NIELSEN HASSING, JulieDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why do people trust certain political institutions and not others, and how best to account for trust’s relationship with democratic participation? This dissertation focuses on the relationship between democratic participation ...
Title:Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Author(s):BRÜCKER, Herbert; FACCHIN, Stefano; VENTURINI, AlessandraDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic ...
Title:Do Foreigners Replace Natives Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis
Author(s):BRÜCKER, Herbert; FACHIN, Stefano; VENTURINI, AlessandraDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IZA Discussion PapersAbstract:This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic ...
Title:Do Legal Regulations Hinder Naturalisation? Citizenship policies and naturalisation rates in Europe
Author(s):REICHEL, DavidDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates a simple relationship: the influence of citizenship regulations on citizenship acquisitions by comparing citizenship policies and naturalisation rates in European countries. The analysis looks at ...
Title:Do Libraries Matter? Public libraries and the creation of social capital
Author(s):VÅRHEIM, Andreas; STEINMO, Sven; IDE, EisakuDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Purpose - Librarians and the library profession keep repeating that libraries contribute greatly to generating social capital by building community. However, little evidence of this has been presented. This paper aims to ...