ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen sind in vielen Ländern bereits Realität. Es wird jedoch die These vertreten …

-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However …

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …

religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism …

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to … the geographical distribution of confessions across Swiss cantons, we find that Protestantism is associated with a …

exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to … the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …