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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071740
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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation …
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2017
We model investment in entrepreneurial human capital (EHC) – the representative enterprise's share of production capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge – as a distinct channel through which firm-specific human capital drives endogenous growth. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946576
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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century …. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …
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Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity : Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data
Lamarche, Carlos - 2013
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...
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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Broadberry, Stephen N. - 2015
Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such link: the role of commercialisation in raising efficiency wages as impersonal and anonymous...
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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?
Grimm, Michael - 2013
Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime'...
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978167
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The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and its Consequences
Zanella, Giulio - 2019
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow-moving traits that determine preferences and...
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