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This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
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conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements …
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
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) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and … investment decisions. Contents Methodological Basics Data Research and Results Eco Factors for EU28 Target Groups Practitioners …
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under imperfect monitoring, optimization of donor policy preferences, and ex-post evaluation of aid programs. The … Eurasia. EU development aid provided a set of reform incentives to post-Soviet planners. It created the grounds for the … Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Aid in Transition: EU Development Cooperation with Russia …
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The focus of this volume is on the development of new approaches for the market-conform valuation of newly issued derivatives. The first chapter presents a flexible approach to construct the binomial process of the underlying asset price by using a simultaneously backward and forward induction...
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-Criteria Analysis for Policy Evaluation -- Conclusions …
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We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate theemployment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s.Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methodsin a dynamic, multiple...
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Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy … collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture may promote rules to indulge in family, social and religious values at the … promoting collectivist culture. Results using 1997 and 2007 Indonesian Family Life Survey community-level panel data highlight …
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innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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