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Happiness, growth, and public policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293153
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627841
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009
the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self … earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …. Latina entrepreneurs are observed to have lower mean earnings than both white female entrepreneurs and Latina employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269026
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
experienced substantial losses in business activity of 36 percent. Female business owners were also disproportionately affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322506
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Trends and Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Morocco: An Initial Exploratory Analysis
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Devoto, Florencia; Morales, Matias; … - 2021
-points gender gap in labor force participation rates, despite improvements typically related to development and female inclusion … household (typically men) increases female inactivity, suggesting that potentially gender roles may drive women out of the labor …The U-shape theory argues that at early stages of development, countries experience a reduction in the female labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597364
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self … earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …. Latina entrepreneurs are observed to have lower mean earnings than both white female entrepreneurs and Latina employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763875
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Trade, peace and democracy: an analysis of dyadic dispute
Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - 2006
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared peace is the natural effect of trade, a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...
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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect
Campos, Nauro F.; Gassebner, Martin - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...
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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022
We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...
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Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form nationhood, igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289924