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in the study region. We find that both family history and local collective memory of successful immigrant integration … experience with immigration can curb nationalism. …
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We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …
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This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income disparities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
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nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other … quarter of a century or so before the outbreak of the First World War. -- Habsburg Empire ; market integration ; nationalism …
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Multinational institutions face an important trade-off when hiring personnel. On the one hand, hiring decisions are based, as in most organizations, on a candidate's professional qualifications. On the other hand, multinational institutions often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing...
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Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … equilibrium channels-weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition …
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China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … compete most directly with China. Exposed workers experience greater job churning and reduced lifetime income, with the …
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's ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …
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We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using … is attracted by market seeking motivations. As expected, resource seeking is an important motivation for Chinese FDI in … motivations are relevant for both manufacturing and services. -- China ; foreign direct investment ; internationalization ; trade …
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