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The Determinants of Trust
Alesina, Alberto - 2000
Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap
Blau, Francine D. - 2001
's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures … and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap. Since it is likely that labor market … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …
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