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Conversionary protestants do not cause democracy
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2020
In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable democracies around the world was influenced by conversionary Protestantism. While Woodberry's historical analysis is exhaustive, the accompanying empirical evidence suffers from severe...
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The alabaster ceiling : the gender legacy of the Papal States
Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2023 - This draft: July 30, 2023
We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the borders between the former Papal States on the one hand, and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena on the other. Our results show that a century after the...
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Incentive pay and firm productivity : evidence from China
Jin, Zhangfeng; Pan, Shiyuan - 2020
This study examines the causes and consequences of incentive pay adoption among Chinese manufacturing firms. First, we find that a higher degree of labor scarcity encourages firms to adopt more incentive pay. Second, using an instrumental variables approach, we find that a 10 percentage point...
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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece
Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022
restrictions. Our results support the hypothesis that technology diffusion promotes educational outcomes and provides additional …
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Estimation of technical change and TFP growth based on observable technology shifters
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2017
the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … exogenous growth factors are used in modeling four technology shifter indices to explore development infrastructure, finances …
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Drivers of labor force participation in advanced economies : macro and micro evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2018
Despite significant headwinds from population aging in most advanced economies (AEs), labor force participation rates show remarkably divergent trajectories both across countries and across different groups of workers. Participation increased sharply among prime-age women and, more recently,...
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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies : a survey and some methodological issues
Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
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Artificial intelligence, income distribution and economic growth
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of …
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The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Marcolin, Arianna; … - 2021
We analyse how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors mediate such relationship, by exploiting a recent, large and dedicated survey distributed to a representative sam- ple of Italian workers. The dedicated survey...
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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations : lessons learned and challenges ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges … outcomes across studies-still stand, including (i) the variable used as a proxy for technology, (ii) the level of aggregation …
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