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Problems in the structure of Romania’s economy
Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Georgescu, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
The study focused on the early stage of Romania’s transition to the market economy during 1990-1992, based on statistical data available at that time. Because of the inherited structural distortions, the persistence of strong forces of inertia and the incoherence of economic and monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876890
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How Would your Kids Vote if I Open my Doors? Evidence from Venezuela
Rodriguez, Francisco; Wagner, Rodrigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
For how long does cultural heritage persist? Do the culturally inherited values of immigrants dilute as generations pass? We answer these question by studying the relationship between revealed political behavior of immigrant families and the culture of the place where they migrated from, either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559011
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Active Labour Market Services Privided by NGOS - The Potential for Social Capital Building In Poland
Rogaczewska, Maria; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper bases on thirty case studies performed in Polish NGOs providing active labour market services to differentiated groups of beneficiaries. Paper describes behavioural patterns of Polish non-profits which substitute the public service in implementing active labour market policies,...
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Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Rocco, Lorenzo; Suhrcke, Marc; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
– individual degree of trust, participation in local organisations, social isolation – and employ alternative procedures to … of trust is positively and significantly correlated with health, either in pooling estimation or when we rely on IV … the quality of the political institutions and civil liberties, while trust and social isolation seem to influence health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616735
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Институциональные ловушки: есть ли выход?
Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Any legislative framework is likely to generate different institutions or norms of behavior which the legislator occasionally could have never foreseen. I suggested a general pattern, on which inefficient, if stable, norms or institutions called institutional traps would form.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552800
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Институциональные ловушки и экономические реформы
Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The theory of institutional traps, i.e. ineffective but stable institutions or behavior norms, is develope din connection with economic reforms. Mechanisms are described that cause a system to get into a trap and ways of going out of it are analyzed. Concepts of transformation costs and...
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Empirical Study Of Institutions Romania
Glaser-Segura, Daniel; Anghel, Laurentiu-Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
trust is positively related to IC. Individualism and collectivism (indcol) exhibits a statistically significant relationship … over interorganizational trust and indcol to foster interorganizational cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626877
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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Beyond Extended Phenotype Evolution of extended identity in order to reconcile study of humanity with biological evolution
Mezgebo, Taddese - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The question: “How much of biological evolution based theories, as they are understood presently, apply to human behaviour?” is highly controversial and perhaps highly politicized as well. The inference that human beings are evolutionarily programmed to have urges toward aggression, rape,...
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The Cyprus crisis in the mirror: the ‘small deposit tax’ as historical faux-pas
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Taxing small deposits used to be a taboo in European politics – but why? This contribution re-assesses the protection of small deposits from an angle that has not received much attention in the current debate: the politico-philosophical, ordo-liberal, and social-political perspectives, arguing...
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