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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation ﾖ what immigrants do with...

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Analysis of the determinants of sports participation in Spain and England

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Do country-specific shocks matter? : evidence from Australia and high income countries

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Coordination versus flexibility in wage formation : a focus on the nominal wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States

Peeters, Marga; Reijer, Ard H. J. den - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 7/9, pp. 698-714

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New Approaches to the Study of Long-Term Non-Employment Duration in Italy, Germany and Spain

Contini, Bruno - 2017

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …

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Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2017

The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the...

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The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship : Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy

Congregado, Emilio - 2009

This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …

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Bubble Economics and Structural Change : The Cases of Spain and France Compared

Agnese, Pablo - 2015

This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting … with different equilibria descriptive of the labor markets in Spain and France, where the unemployment rates went from the … unemployment rate in Spain has jumped to much higher levels while switching between equilibria or, what is the same, because of …

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