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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion
Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005
Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118909
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Kulturelle und strukturelle Faktoren bei der Rückkehr in den Beruf : Ostdeutsche, westdeutsche und ost-west-mobile Mütter im Vergleich (Transition back to work : comparing mothers...
Grunow, Daniela; Müller, Dana - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"We assess the relative impact of cultural norms and structural conditions on employment interruption patterns of new mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the regions differ markedly with regard to cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493979
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Between familial imprinting and institutional regulation: Family related employment interruptions of women in Germany before and after the German reunification
Drasch, Katrin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"In this paper, I examine how family related employment interruptions for women in the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany) and the GDR (German Democratic Republic) looked like in the period prior to German reunification. Furthermore, I investigate how career interruptions developed after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641634
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Einflussfaktoren auf das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial : Demografie und Erwerbsverhalten in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force in East and West Germany into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age structure of the population. The second effect is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132557
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Between familial imprinting and institutional regulation: Family related employment interruptions of women in Germany before and after the German reunification
Drasch, Katrin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"In this paper, I examine how family related employment interruptions for women in the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany) and the GDR (German Democratic Republic) looked like in the period prior to German reunification. Furthermore, I investigate how career interruptions developed after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592411
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Einflussfaktoren auf das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial : Demografie und Erwerbsverhalten in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force in East and West Germany into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age structure of the population. The second effect is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592442
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Kulturelle und strukturelle Faktoren bei der Rückkehr in den Beruf : Ostdeutsche, westdeutsche und ost-west-mobile Mütter im Vergleich (Transition back to work * comparing mothers...
Grunow, Daniela; Müller, Dana - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"We assess the relative impact of cultural norms and structural conditions on employment interruption patterns of new mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the regions differ markedly with regard to cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592460
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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004
associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125614
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125845
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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003
from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126217