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The Economic Impact of Immigration in Greece : Taking Stock of the Existing Evidence
Cholezas, Ioannis; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2021
Greece was traditionally an emigration country. However, since the early 1990s it became an immigrant destination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324917
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Two to Tangle : Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324919
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China'S Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2021
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314817
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Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs : The Short-Term Impacts of the Covid-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market
Betcherman, Gordon - 2020
lockdown in Greece. We find that flows into unemployment have not increased; in fact, separations were lower than would have … introduced to mitigate the effects of the crisis in Greece have played an important role. These measures prohibited layoffs in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827345
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The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2020
During the last decade, Greece faced one of the most severe debt crises among developed countries, leading to Economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827358
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Working at Home in Greece : Unexplored Potential at Times of Social Distancing?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in … the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in … arrangements in many countries, this paper presents evidence that working from home (WfH) in Greece was subdued in the past decade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829924
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Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times : Greece 2007-2016
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2020
Greece was inadequate while there was no "benefit of last resort". As a result, the relative position of households with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831239
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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use : The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912243