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Educational scores : how does Russia fare?
Amini, Chiara; Commander, Simon - 2011
Russia in comparative light as well as the factors associated with differences in educational outcomes in Russia. Despite the … looking at within-country variation in Russia. We find both in the cross-country estimates as also those using just Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516950
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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785812
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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? : analyzing the Caesar model
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2008
When a society overthrows a ruler - call the ruler Caesar - what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value ordinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688805
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786965
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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
and innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350349
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Immigrant inventors and diversity in the age of mass migration
Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2020
A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239250
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239493
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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243470
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022425
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178399