This dataset provides individual data on political attitudes, including electoral turnout and voting preferences. The dataset also includes data on attitudes on a wide range of issues, evaluations of the economy and a range of survey experiments. Last, but not least it also includes data on media usage.
Data Collection is sponsored by the Operational Program "Education and Life-long Learning" (Action "Aristeia II"), co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and by national funds.
In this paper, we draw on the concepts of in-betweenness and migration interdependence in order to investigate the vulnerability of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine due to their confl icting relations with Russia and the exposure of their economies to remittance flows from the latter. To achieve this goal, we explore whether and how migrant flows and remittance flows have diverged since 2014, when the three states signed their Association Agreements with the EU and their economic relations with Russia deteriorated. In this respect, we examine how interstate relations impact upon migration and remittances flows. After discussing in-betweenness and migration interdependence, we investigate the origin of the remittance inflows in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine and the destination of the migration outfl ows. We map the development of remittances from the World, Europe, and Russia and relate it with the development of their GDP using longitudinal data. A comparative analysis of our findings suggest that the three cases differ from each other, but, in all three cases, Russia has not used migration interdependence as leverage. We conclude that remittance flows in the three in-between states are more affected by the state of the global economy, the economic situation of Russia, and domestic circumstances rather than from interstate relations.
This paper investigates the existence and direction of a relationship between real wages and employment. Using a panel from ten different OECD countries, from 1950 to 2005, it applies panel cointegration and causality methodology. This study finds statistical evidence for a long run relationship between these two variables. However, it firmly rejects the hypothesis that wages cause employment in the short-run. Thus the results support Keynes's view namely, real wages fall because employment increases, presumably via an increase in demand. The results imply that real wage reduction is not sufficient to induce an expansion of output and employment.
This dataset provides individual data on conventional and unconventional political participation, including electoral turnout and voting preferences. The dataset also includes data on attitudes on a wide range of issues, evaluations of the economy, as well as attitudes towards social groups. Last, but not least, it includes data on emotions and personal values, as well as all measures of internal and external efficacy. Data have been collected by telephone interviews conducted in January 2015 prior to the 25 January 2015 Parliamentary Elections.
This dataset provides individual data on conventional and unconventional political participation, including electoral turnout and voting preferences. The dataset also includes data on attitudes on a wide range of issues, evaluations of the economy, as well as attitudes towards social groups. Last, but not least, it includes data on emotions and personal values, as well as all measures of internal and external efficacy. Data have been collected by telephone interviews conducted in February 2015 just after the 25 January 2015 Parliamentary Elections.
This dataset provides individual data on conventional and unconventional political participation, including electoral turnout and voting preferences. The dataset also includes data on attitudes on a wide range of issues, evaluations of the economy, as well as attitudes towards social groups. Last, but not least, it includes data on emotions and personal values, as well as all measures of internal and external efficacy. Data have been collected by telephone interviews conducted in November 2015, that is a few weeks after the 20 September 2015 Parliamentary Elections.
Themen: Allgemeine Entwicklung im Land; Vertrauen in die Regierung und den Premierminister; öffentliche Versammlungen der gemeinsamen Koalition; vorgezogene Neuwahl des Parlaments; Parteipräferenz (Sonntagsfrage).
Sicherheitsfragen, politische Einstellungen und Wahlverhalten.
Themen: Allgemeine Entwicklung im Land; ethnischer Friede oder Krieg; Zustimmung zur Verfassungsänderung durch Mitglieder des Parlaments; NATO Mission "Essential Harvest"; Ohrid Framework Agreement; Vertrauen in Boris Trajkovski, Ljubcho Georgievski, Branko Crvenkovski, das Parlament, Polizei, Armee, NATO, EU und USA; Parteipräferenz (Sonntagsfrage).
Einstellung zur außenpolitischen Sicherheit, Wahlverhalten und politische Einstellungen.
Themen: Ökonomisches Wachstum und Verbesserung des Lebensstandards; Menschenrechte; ethnische Beziehungen; Kommunikation mit Balkanregion und Europa; Einstellung zur außenpolitischen Sicherheit; Vermeidung von Konflikten; Einstellung zum NATO Beitritt; Rolle der USA; Parteipräferenz (Sonntagsfrage).
Einstellung zur außenpolitischen Sicherheit, politische Einstellungen und Wahlverhalten.
Themen: Ethnischer Friede oder Krieg; Rolle von Boris Trajkovski, Ljubcho Georgievski, Branko Crvenkovski, Arben Xaferi, Imer Imeri, Stojan Andov, Vasil Tupurkovski, Boris Stojmenov, Ljube Boshkovski, Vlado Buchkovski, Ilinka Mitreva sowie Risto Penov, der USA, EU, NATO, Russlands, ausländische und inländische Medien bei der Konfliktlösung; Parteipräferenz (Sonntagsfrage).
