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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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The Growth Effects of Institutional Instability

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2009

Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of institutional instability. We investigate the...

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Interconnecting Ecolutionary, Institutional and Cognitive Economics: Six Steps towards Understanding the Six Links

Pelikan, Pavel - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

Many students of evolutionary, institutional, and cognitive economics have been aware that important links among these fields exist, and several authors have worked on bringing these links to light. Nevertheless, large parts of these links still remain poorly understood. Low interest in...

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Choosing One’s Own Informal Institutions: On Hayek’s Critique of Keynes’s Immoralism

Berggren, Niclas - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

’s life irrespective of the informal institutions in place. However, it is argued here that immoralism may be compatible with …

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Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-growth Firms

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

institutions that foster the emergence of competence blocs and the creation of HGFs. In particular, our analysis points to the …. Finally, we characterize institutions beneficial for sclerotic or dynamic capitalism, respectively, depending on whether they …

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