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Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Alesina, Alberto; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Giuliano, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers to be efficient. Otherwise, firms can take advantage of the immobility of workers and extract monopsony rents. In cultures with strong family ties, moving away from home is costly. Thus, individuals with strong family ties rationally...
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Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. …
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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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