IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12364

Mauro Lanati, Rainer Thiele

{"title":"The link between economic growth and emigration from developing countries: Does migrants' skill composition matter?","authors":"Mauro Lanati, Rainer Thiele","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/kykl.12364","url":null,"abstract":"Tackling the root causes of migration from developing countries through development cooperation has been suggested as an essential part of the policy mix in OECD migrant destinations. This is even though the evidence on whether economic development leads to more or less people emigrating is so far inconclusive. We investigate the relationship between income per capita and emigration to OECD countries separately for three different skill groups—low-skilled, medium-skilled and high-skilled emigrants—being the first to employ panel regression approaches that account for cross-country heterogeneity and cover a policy-relevant time frame of about 5 years. Our findings reveal a universal negative association between income per capita and emigration for all three skill groups and for different income thresholds. This implies that policy makers should not be too concerned about potential trade-offs between (successful) development cooperation and immigration management, at least in the short to medium run that our analysis covers. At the same time, the scope for using development cooperation as a migration policy instrument can be considered to be limited given the modest size of the estimated income effect: Taking our point estimates at face value, a 10% rise in GDP per capita would on average lead to about 3600 fewer immigrants per destination.","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"77 1","pages":"213-248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138602458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Income distribution and nudity on social media: Attention economics of Instagram stars 收入分配与社交媒体上的裸露行为：Instagram 明星的注意力经济学

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12363

Sophia Gaenssle

{"title":"Income distribution and nudity on social media: Attention economics of Instagram stars","authors":"Sophia Gaenssle","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/kykl.12363","url":null,"abstract":"Social media stars gain star-status with uploads on social media pages like YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. One of the most popular platforms is “Instagram” owned by Meta/Facebook. The growing social, cultural, and economic power of so-called influencers raises questions about key drivers of success and, moreover, distribution of income on social media platforms. Instagram has been accused of strategically favoring images with nude content. In order to shed light on this socio-critical aspect, this paper examines the following research questions: Does body exposure drive income success on Instagram? Is there a difference between male and female content in this regard? This paper empirically analyzes 500 top Instagram stars within the categories (1) fashion and beauty, (2) fitness and sports, (3) music, (4) photo and arts, and (5) food and vegan. The data provide information on popularity, posting behavior, and price estimates per post. Using hybrid regression models, the results show indeed positive impact of body exposure on monetary success. Accounts with high level of body exposure achieve higher prices and advertising revenues than accounts with less nudity, regardless of the gender. Regarding gender differences, male content achieves on average higher advertising prices, whereas female accounts provide more branded content and eventually achieve higher advertising revenues.","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"77 1","pages":"184-212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Revenue sharing, fiscal incentives, and economic growth: Evidence from China 收入分享、财政激励和经济增长：来自中国的证据

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12362

Yixin Chen, Bingyang Lyu, Guangrong Ma

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The impact of recentralization reform on corruption: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment 权力下放改革对腐败的影响：来自准自然实验的证据

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12361

Hiep Ngoc Luu, Tram Anh Nguyen, Ngoc Minh Nguyen, Dam Duc Le, Khoi Trong Dao

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A theory of the city-state: The rise and decline of the rule of law in Medieval Italy 城邦理论：中世纪意大利法治的兴衰

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12360

Ennio E. Piano

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A post-politics earnings penalty? Evidence from politicians' lifetime income trajectories (1970–2019) 从政后的收入惩罚？政治家一生收入轨迹（1970-2019）的证据

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12358

Benny Geys, Rune J. Sørensen

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Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? Within-region estimates from the European Social Survey 失业率是否减缓了失业者的福利劣势？来自欧洲社会调查的区域内估计值

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12357

Gábor Hajdu, Tamás Hajdu

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Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 选民不够完美的民主国家的最佳税收：公共选择视角

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12356

Roger D. Congleton

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Forever young: Relative age effects in Belgian political selection 永远年轻：比利时政治选择中的相对年龄效应

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Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12353

Alan Al Yussef, Bruno Heyndels, Pauline Le Boulaire

{"title":"Forever young: Relative age effects in Belgian political selection","authors":"Alan Al Yussef, Bruno Heyndels, Pauline Le Boulaire","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12353","url":null,"abstract":"Political selection is crucial for the functioning of democracy. However, the practice—in education and sports contexts—of artificially dividing school-age children into different age groups leads to a considerable bias in this selection. The probability of becoming a (successful) politician depends on individuals' relative age. Being born shortly after the cut-off date significantly increases the probability that an individual will be politically successful later in life. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find strong evidence of such relative age effect (RAE) among a large sample of Belgian federal parliamentarians over the period 1950–2019 (N = 4032), but not among municipal councillors (N = 7387), nor among municipal candidates (N = 36,740) in the 2018 election. The estimated overrepresentation of federal members of the parliament (MPs) born immediately after the cut-off date is up to 90% compared to politicians born just before the cut-off date. The overrepresentation is observed over the whole period and thus seems to be deeply rooted in the political system. We find the RAE to have a gendered dimension: The effect is driven by early-born male politicians' overrepresentation. No significant RAE was found among female politicians.","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"76 4","pages":"859-881"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50150914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Free riding on short-time work allowances? Results from an experimental survey design 免费享受短期工作津贴？实验调查设计的结果

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12354

Mario Bossler, Christopher Osiander, Julia Schmidtke, Mark Trappmann

{"title":"Free riding on short-time work allowances? Results from an experimental survey design","authors":"Mario Bossler, Christopher Osiander, Julia Schmidtke, Mark Trappmann","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12354","url":null,"abstract":"Short-time work (STW) is a policy measure whose prominence increases during economic crises and is intended to stabilize the labor market. Employers can temporarily reduce employees' working hours, which are in turn paid by the social security system in the meantime. Although short-time work—by design—saves employers a fraction of their wage costs, little is known about free riding behavior when using this option. Accordingly, we analyze the employee-reported free riding experience with respect to longer actual working hours than accounted for in employees' short-time work allowances, the unchanged workloads experienced by these employees, and announced lay-off decisions. Since these questions are certainly sensitive, we employ the crosswise model, a privacy-preserving technique, in a random half of the sample. Our results show significant employee-reported prevalences across all dimensions and a significant association between free riding and workers' job dissatisfaction. These findings thus highlight the importance of the crosswise model in uncovering these findings and demonstrate a specific drawback in the application of short-time work.","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"76 4","pages":"882-901"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50133266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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