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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789109
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Foreign language learning : an econometric analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid Toubal - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388720
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Democracy and development : the devil in the details
Persson, Torsten (contributor);  … - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301122
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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515355
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Political capitalism : the interaction between income inequality, economic freedom and democracy
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411131
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Workers without borders? : culture, migration and the political limits to globalization
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2010
This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938184
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The economic value of cultural diversity : Evidence from US Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004
We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404281
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The impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on cultural diversity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel … - 2023 - Original version: April 2023, this version: May 2023
. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions across the world, we find that ethnic groups further away from East Africa … of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251953
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350203
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Wage and employment impact of minimum wage : evidence from Lithuania
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Tarasonis, Linas - 2022
Lithuania. Our identification strategy leverages variation in workers’ exposure to the new minimum wage, and exploits the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440409