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Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School : Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
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'To Have and Have Not' : Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria
Margolis, David N. - 2015
This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
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Interprovincial Migration in China : The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Hou, Jack W; Zhao, Yaohui - 2021
Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that migration...
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Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2021
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females' willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment : Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
start-up activity and larger shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual …
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia : A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2021
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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