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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
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Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Individual Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity
Grajzl, Peter - 2017
We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity...
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Induced Civic Pride and Integration
Süssmuth, Bernd - 2009
This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...
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European Identity and Redistributive Preferences
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
How important is spatial identity in shifting preferences for redistribution? This paper takes advantage of within-country variability in the adoption of a single currency as an instrument to examine the impact of the rescaling of spatial identity in Europe. We draw upon data from the last three...
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...
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Financing Conditions, the Concept of Innovation Capacity and the Innovative Activity of Firms
Paula, Georg - 2021
measure for the innovative activity of a firm to identify the effects of credit constraints on the innovation behaviour of … financing conditions do not foster it. To explain this novel result we extend the usual theory of innovation activity by … rigidities with respect to a firm’s individual innovation capacity, which leads to a differentiation between a long run and a …
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Financing Conditions, the Concept of Innovation Capacity and the Innovative Activity of Firms
Paula, Georg - CESifo - 2010
measure for the innovative activity of a firm to identify the effects of credit constraints on the innovation behaviour of … financing conditions do not foster it. To explain this novel result we extend the usual theory of innovation activity by … rigidities with respect to a firm’s individual innovation capacity, which leads to a differentiation between a long run and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833891
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas - 2014
-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
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Persistence of Politicians and Firms' Innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio - 2014
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …
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