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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

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Math, girls and socialism

Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya

Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …

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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism

Wiber, Melanie G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

only from legal institutions that mediate property rights, but also from social institutions that determine and distribute … rights, and how these legal and social institutions interface. The three-tiered model presented in this paper ideological …

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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India

Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the...

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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...

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