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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2015
success once industrialization transforms the economic landscape …
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Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand : A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey
Meschi, Elena F. - 2015
This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting … firm‐level database that covers all manufacturing firms in Turkey over the 1992‐2001 period. Turkey is taken as an example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012811
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values : The Case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno - 2014
measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey's place on them. Our study, which is based … value development index ranks Morocco twelfth – just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a …
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Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19 : Lessons from the Great Recession
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Doug - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243089
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132978
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class : The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Blanden, Jo - 2011
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social class; intergenerational mobility for this outcome is found to be unchanged. Our aim here is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117185
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard, et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119018
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture : The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120848
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Race, Social Class, and Bulimia Nervosa
Goeree, Michelle Sovinsky - 2011
In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
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