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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann - 2015
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035397
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Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run Up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon
Fakih, Ali - 2020
dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837906
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Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?
Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317063
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131158
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139696
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The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment : Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence
Gal, Peter N. - 2013
This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent financial crisis using firm-level data. First, it provides comparable estimates on firm-level labor adjustment by country, industry and firm size. Second, using variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081802
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143681
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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Bjorklund, Anders - 2012
the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096153
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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants : A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter - 2012
Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099094