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Forced migration and human capital : evidence from post-WWII population transfers
Becker, Sascha O.; Grosfeld, Irena; Grosjean, Pauline; … - 2018
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Malta's Statistical Institute : a concise history 1947 - 2011
2011
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Der Institutionalisierungsprozess des Lohnarbeitsverhältnisses vom Ersten bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the institutional development of the structural elements of the standard employment contract in Germany from the beginning of World War I until the outbreak of World War II. For this purpose, a model of the standard employment contract including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152424
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Under the thumb of history? : political institutions and the scope for action
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231679
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Under the thumb of history? : political institutions and the scope for action
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256240
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Why it matters what people think : beliefs, legal origins and the deep roots of trust
Wahl, Fabian - 2012
This paper analyses the connection between legal origins and generalized trust. Based on recent results of institutions and trust research it argues that legal origins and trust are connected via the beliefs of agents. Next, it develops hypotheses about a complex and self-reinforcing causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009563444
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Transparency, appropriability and the early state
Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - 2011
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Behavioral economics and institutional innovation
Shiller, Robert J. - 2004
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The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Economic Development in Peru
Arroyo Abad, Leticia - 2020
Recent scholarship claims that extractive colonial institutions explain the lackluster performance of Latin American economies today. We examine forced labor in colonial Peru. We find that while coercive labor institutions led to a drop in the indigenous population until the seventeenth century,...
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Inherited Institutions : Cooperation in the Light of Democratic Legitimacy
Langenbach, Pascal - 2019
We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a … impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …) institution, as compared to the corresponding, randomly imposed setting. In the second generation, the procedural history only …
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