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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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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic linkages and institutional distance

Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - 2014

countries with worse institutions relative to the origin country. Additionally, institutional distance matters more for …

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Accession incentives for institutional change in post-socialist countries: cross-section and country evidence from NATO enlargement

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Heitmann, Hanno - 2010

This paper analyses the transformative power of NATO accession that gains in importance due to the enlargement fatigue of the EU, the EU’s rather weak neighbourhood incentives and the increasing importance of regional security as an incentive for compliance with the institutional standards of...

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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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Institutions and training inequality

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

unemployment benefits) in determining firm-provided training. We find that the institutional interactions - specifically, their … striking results, such as: (a) the minimum wage and unemployment benefits generate increasing skills inequality whereas firing … costs generate diminishing skills inequality; (b) unemployment benefits and firing costs are complements in their effects on …

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EU enlargement and institutional development: How far away are the EU's Balkan and Black Sea neighbors?

Hammermann, Felix; Schweickert, Rainer - 2005

. Three dimensions of institutional quality - legislative, administrative, and judicative institutions - are analyzed on the …

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Untangling the quality of governance from the level of income: Are Sub-Saharan African countries governed well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - 2005

countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of … institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic … empirical evidence that appears to imply the supremacy of institutions. …

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