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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Did austerity cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877825
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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures : evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364513
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Identity, beliefs, and political conflict
Gennaioli, Nicola; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019 - This version: July 2019
globalization or cultural changes may induce voters to switch identities, dampening their demand for redistribution and exacerbating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029139
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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world
Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - This version: October 5, 2015
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348007
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557658
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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397998
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Globalization, inequality, and redistribution : theory and evidence
Gozgor, Giray; Ranjan, Priya - 2015
This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343065
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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528971
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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...
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