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institutions will have to start technical and professional education programs. Several new educational institutions will have to be …
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negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …
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This paper explores how social capital is related with self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship is affected by gender, using data for 3075 adult participants in the 2000 Social Policy and Social Consciousness (SPSC) survey. Controlling for endogenous bias, unobserved city...
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The main question of this paper is to investigate if and how the voluntary sector – as an institutional agent of the third sector - matters for the local development path. By adopting a multimensional and relational approach to the development, the paper surveys, compares and overlaps three...
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There is a growing literature which analyses, using cross-country data, whether institutions or geography is the most … important deep determinant of income per capita. The empirical proxies used for institutions in this literature, however, focus … only on formal institutions, rather than informal institutions, despite the fact that North (1990) emphasised the …
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Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of independence fostered by the free city-states...
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completely after we control for aggregate measures of economic development and quality of institutions. Informal institutions …
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economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and measure various types of institutions based on a theoretical …
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collected by the authors in June 2012, we investigate the factors that are correlated with knowledge of the formal institutions …. There is evidence of a clear gender distinction both in terms of the knowledge of the formal institutions, and in income … likely to benefit from the knowledge of formal institutions of disability. Through our analysis we have sought to expand the …
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Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique and the Granger causality test. The study results indicate that Institutions and … the causality between Institutions and growth is uni-directional. However, there is no short run causality from … Institutions to growth and vice versa. Therefore, as a policy implication that institutional quality may cause to the sustainable …
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