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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
accounts have suggested that the Ottomans' rise helped the Protestant Reform movement as well as its various offshoots, such as … Protestant Reformers and the Catholic Counter-Reform movement between the 15th and 17th centuries support the idea that Ottoman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952
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Alternative composite Lisbon development strategy indices
Heshmati, Almas (contributor); Oh, Jong-Eun (contributor) - 2005
components: general economics, employment, innovation research, economic reform, social cohesion and environment, each generated … goals. The necessity of a real reform agenda in several old and new members and candidate countries emerges from our … composed of six components: general economics, employment, innovation research, economic reform, social cohesion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085751
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Is there a link between economic outcomes and genetic evolution? : Cross-country evidence from the major histocompatibility complex
Borghans, José A. M. (contributor);  … - 2005
This research develops a theory and presents empirical evidence of a link between economic outcomes and genetic evolution. Important properties for successful analysis of such a link are found in the adaptive immune system and particularly in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283018
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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Happiness and economic growth : does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
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Do international labor standards contribute to the persistence of the child labor problem?
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2009
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860517
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Happiness and growth the world over : time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824943
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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities : the role of employment quota
Prakash, Nishith - 2009
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...
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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
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