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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023
What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
characteristics of the Canton of Bern using household-level data. In particular, we exploit quasi-natural policy variation in voting …
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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 … decrease and increase. Estimating the value added of household production yields similar patterns. Labor productivity of …
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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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Economic-social interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008
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Changing tides for the welfare state : an essay
Lindbeck, Assar - 2002
It has turned out to be difficult to adjust welfare-state arrangements to new circumstances. This paper emphasizes developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family. The former include changes in demography, productivity growth and international linkages...
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021
The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and...
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