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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...
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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economies
Nam, Chang-woon - 2002
Germany and the US. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409015
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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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Privatising network industries
Newbery, David M. G. - 2004
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Late payments, liquidity constraints and the mismatch between due dates and paydays
Dahan, Momi; Nisan, Udi - 2020
behavior. In Jerusalem, water bill due dates are randomly determined and therefore may occur just before or after social … a day after the water bill due date to the likelihood of late payment by the same households when they receive their … benefits a day or more before the water bill due date. Using a large administrative data set, we found that a small random …
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The value of information in water quality monitoring and management
Luhede, Amelie; Yaqine, Houda; Bahmanbijari, Reza; … - 2023
this problem. We use the VoI framework to analyse a decision problem in water quality management. Based on real …-world monitoring data, we calculate the VoI of monitoring nitrogen, which is used as an indicator of the ecological state of water body …
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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 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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Tax credits, income support and partnership decisions
Anderberg, Dan (contributor) - 2007
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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...
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Economic-social interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008
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