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Regionalism, productivity, and innovation

Avendano, Rolando; Tani, Massimiliano; Tolin, Lovely C. - 2024

In this paper, we examine whether, and if so how, an economy's deliberate policy choices of regional cooperation and integration influence underlying determinants of economic growth. Building on models of growth and innovation, we analyze the role of regional integration on labor productivity...

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Settlement location shapes refugee integration : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - 2019

Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...

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Are the East African Community's countries ready for a common currency?

Rusuhuzwa, Thomas Kigabo; Heshmati, Almas - 2022

We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...

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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaîd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Performance pay, competitiveness, and the gender wage gap : evidence from the United States

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter; Pan, Jessica - 2014

speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 … - suggesting an increasing role for competitiveness in explaining the gender wage gap. …

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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals

Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015

. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in … counterparts do. Moreover, gender differences in competitiveness explain around 10% of the overall gender gap. We also find that …

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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk-taking among children, teenagers, and college students : evidence from Jeopardy!

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2017

Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how … (aged 13-17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …

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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Mani, Subha; Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...

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Do men matter to female competition even when they don't?

Birk, Erica G.; Lee, Logan M.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2016

A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the decision to compete. We exploit a highly competitive environment in which elite-female athletes are exposed to the presence of men without the element of direct competition, which...

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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

measure the competitiveness of gay, lesbian and straight panel members. For differences in competitiveness to partially … more competitive than other women. Our findings confirm this competitiveness hypothesis for men, but not for women. Gay men … data, we show that competitiveness is a significant predictor of earnings. Differences in competitiveness can account for a …

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