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Macroeconomic policy and unemployment by economic activity : evidence from Turkey
Berument, Hakan (contributor); Dogan, Nukhet (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence … several other macroeconomic shocks. The quarterly data used which covers the period 1988:01 to 2004:04 from Turkey. A VAR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688806
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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610049
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566281
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697679
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazici, Hakki - 2017
characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763903
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469675
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Do employment subsidies work? : evidence from regionally targeted subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon (contributor);  … - 2008
employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719623