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Alternative composite Lisbon development strategy indices
Heshmati, Almas; Oh, Jong-Eun - 2005
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267606
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Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices
Oh, Jong-Eun; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822326
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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the technological innovation also provides impetus to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267513
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Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the technological innovation also provides impetus to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822966
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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 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/10011584694
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Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984542
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873558
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931781
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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; Awad, … - 2020
by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of … calculated from this measurement instrument correspond to traditional survey-based and objective measures of cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322534