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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167137
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013065
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Do Family Values Shape the Pace to Return to Work after Childbirth?
Borrell-Porta, Mireia - CESifo - 2015
This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the effect of a parental leave policy reform in Germany in 2007-aimed at incentivizing an earlier return to work - on the return to work of mothers who hold different family values....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155381
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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - CESifo - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size. The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy.
Addario, Sabrina Di; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2010
urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of negative differentials in returns to entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511617
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Spatial Concentration of Manufacturing Firms in China
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - CESifo - 2014
firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
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Credit Constraints and FDI Spillovers in China
Agarwal, Natasha; Milner, Chris; Riaño, Alejandro - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines whether credit constraints affect Chinese firms’ absorption of productivity spillovers from foreign firms. Using firm-level data for 2001-2005, we find evidence of positive spillovers originating from FDI from countries other than Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for non-state...
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Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Transition Economies: Surveying the Surveyable
Egert, Balazs; MacDonald, Ronald - CESifo - 2006
This paper surveys recent advances in the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM). In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, special attention is paid to exploring possible interrelations between different channels through which they may amplify or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094342
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877639
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Foreign Languages and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - CESifo - 2014
Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....
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