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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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We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …
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experience with immigration can curb 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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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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This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators … in 2009 is signalled in advance. -- currency crises ; leading economic indicators ; signal approach ; Kazakhstan …
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-prudential indicators. The system will be tested using a case study referring to Kazakhstan. The main novelty of the study lies in designing … composite indicators for the real economy, the banking sector, the overall financial sector and finally the international … economic environment of Kazakhstan and in studying the interaction of these composite indicators. An additional innovation is …
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We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
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This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …
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