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Sailing through history : the legacy of medieval sea trade on migrant perception and extreme right voting
Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024
less likely to think that migrants make Italy an unsafe place as well as to report right-wing voting attitudes. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533686
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Women, medieval commerce, and the education gender gap
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … Italian cities among themselves and with the rest of the world. The effect of medieval commerce is particularly strong at the … the geographic, economic, political, and cultural differentiation of medieval Italy. The long-term influence of medieval …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009716765
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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...
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level : the case of Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009
show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher … system and the lagged demographic structure. -- Firm ; local human capital externalities ; Italy ; manufacturing ; wages …
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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the …
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What determines the capital share over the long run of history?
Bengtsson, Erik; Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...
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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....
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Three revolutions of the modern era
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
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