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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro … political power are partly inherited from the colonial histories experienced by different areas of the country. Municipalities … public goods and lower income per capita. -- Institutions ; colonial heritage ; rent-seeking ; geography ; Brazil …

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies...

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The gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ of the European Union

Christofidēs, Loizos N.; Polycarpou, Alexandros; … - 2010

We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...

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The use of flexible measures to cope with economic crises in Germany and Brazil

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Pastore, José - 2011

This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was … less prominent. -- labor market flexibility ; Germany ; Brazil ; working time ; dismissal protection …

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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches

Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2010

national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …

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What accounts for the US ascendancy to economic superpower by the early 20th century : the morrill act - human capital hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

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