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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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Does foreign entry spur innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015

trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. -- Innovation …

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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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Toothless reforms? : the remarkable stability of female labor force participation in a top-reforming country

Pignatti, Norberto; Torosyan, Karine; Chitanava, Maka - 2016

Low Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) constitutes a foregone opportunity at both the macro and at the micro levels, potentially increasing the vulnerability of households and lowering the long-run development perspectives of a country. Most international organizations and national policy...

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Employment discrimination in a former Soviet Union Republic : evidence from a field experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pignatti, Norberto; Skhirtladze, Sophiko - 2017

We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect...

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Job market outcomes of IDPs : the case of Georgia

Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto; Obrizan, Maksym - 2018

Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are only a handful of previous studies investigating the issue of labor market outcomes of IDPs. We...

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Informal employment relationships and the labor market : is there segmentation in Ukraine?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2018

One of the most important factors that determine individuals' quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of the formal segment of the labor market against their will, i.e., the labor market is segmented,...

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Risk attitudes and informal employment in Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas; Khamis, Melanie; Lehmann, Hartmut; … - 2023

Using data from the four waves of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - ULMS (2003, 2004, 2007 and 2012), we analyze whether workers with a higher willingness to take risks are more likely to select into informal employment contracts. The data permit us to distinguish between five...

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