Title:Expressive vs. Instrumental Motivation of Turnout, Partisanship and Political Learning
Author(s):TÓKA, GáborDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This article examines if intrinsic rewards of expected political benefits have a greater motivational force for turnout, political learning and the development of political preferences. Using comparative survey data from ...
Title:Extending Health Insurance: Effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana
Author(s):BRUGIAVINI, Agar; PACE, NoemiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:There is considerable interest in exploring the potential of health insurance to increase the access to, and the affordability of, health care in Africa. We focus on the recent experience of Ghana, where a National Health ...
Title:The extensive margin and monetary policy
Author(s):BERGIN, Paul; CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The creation of new firms, referred to as the extensive margin, is a significant but overlooked dimension of monetary policy. A monetary VAR documents that monetary policy has significant effects on firm creation. An ...
Title:External Labour Migration in Ukraine as a Factor in Socio-demographic and Economic Development
Author(s):POZNIAK, OleksiiDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Migration Policy CentreAbstract:The paper focuses on the role of labor migration in Ukrainian development, particularly its impact upon demographics and the labor market. The author evaluates the real size and composition of the resident population of ...
Title:The Fabric of International Jurisprudence: An interdisciplinary encounter
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, Antoine; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; SOLANKE, Iyiola; DALLARA, Cristina; PETKOVA, Bilyana; PORTA, Jérome; VAN BOCKEL, BasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Bringing together a variety of outlooks from comparative law, legal theory, organizational sociology, socio-legal studies or political science, this Joint Working Papers explores the cognitive equipment through which ...
Title:Factors that Influence the Targets and Criteria for Electricity Interconnector Investments
Author(s):SUPPONEN, MattiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analysis various factors that influence electricity interconnector investments. It shows that several features linked to zonal market design, in particular the possibility to favour market participants in the ...
Title:Fairness in Risky Environments: Theory and evidence
Author(s):BABICKÝ, Vitezslav; ORTMANN, Andreas; VAN KOTEN, SilvesterDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CERGE-EI Working PaperAbstract:Theories of fairness have typically used the assumption of ex-ante known pie size. Pie size, however, is rarely known ex ante. Using three simple allocation problems generally known as dictator, ultimatum and trust games, ...
Title:Famille, capital social et réintégration socioprofessionnelle des migrants de retour au Mali
Author(s):CALENDA, DavideDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Return Migration and Development Platform (RDP)]Abstract:Cette étude analyse le processus de réintégration socioprofessionnelle et économique des migrants de retour au Mali. L’analyse se fonde sur 313 entretiens recueillis auprès de migrants de retour, réalisés entre février et ...
Title:Family Background, School System and Academic Achievement in Germany and in Japan
Author(s):OJIMA, Fumiaki; VON BELOW, SusanneDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates why the effect of family background on student’s educational achievement is so different in Germany and in Japan in spite of their similarity over a huge variance of student performance scores in ...