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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...

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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...

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Globalization and Social Change : Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2017

We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

negative effects of Kearney’s globalization index on current and future economic growth in our equations. We conclude that not …

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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality …

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Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory

Hatgioannides, John - 2012

In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...

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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals

Campos, Nauro F. - 2009

The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...

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Creativity over Time and Space

Serafinelli, Michel - 2019

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...

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Neoliberalization and the Changing Roles of Stakeholders in State-Led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China

Li, Xin - 2016

Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to improve the living conditions of low-income residents....

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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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