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The Causal Effect of Education on Climate Literacy and Pro-Environmental Behaviours : Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global warming, empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834586
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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216489
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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141699
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325054
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The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
Jepsen, Christopher - 2012
This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied associate's degrees. Using administrative data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099399
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087408
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075792
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155538
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158060
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
Cunha, Flavio - 2008
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773658