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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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National champion versus foreign takeover
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597575
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Symbolic values, value formation and interpersonal relations
Corneo, Giacomo - 2009
Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879349
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The distribution of income in Central America
Gindling, Thomas; Trejos, Juan Diego - 2013
distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal … inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 … and Nicaragua but increased in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. -- income inequality ; Central America ; labour income …
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Gone with the storm : rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala
Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - 2015
strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept - on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts previously attributed solely to the …
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Women in paid employment: a role for public policies and social norms in Guatemala
Almeida, Rita; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …
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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …
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The effect of job loss on health : evidence from biomarkers
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen M.; Hurd, Michael D. - 2014
The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2019
After the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. However, it remains unclear whether this entrepreneurial activity was driven by the resources, information and opportunities provided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136956