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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...

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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...

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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

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Social Change

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...

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Immigrants and Religion

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...

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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...

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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs

Vivarelli, Marco; Catozzella, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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