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Earning differentials between German and French speakers in Switzerland

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

along language borders? Improving on previous research in this area, we use a nationally representative household survey …, the Swiss Household Panel 1999 and 2000, and we explicitly account for self-selection of workers into language areas …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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The demand for social insurance: Does culture matter?

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011

issue across language groups in Switzerland. Language defines social groups and Swiss language groups are separated by a … language border. We can therefore study the role of culture in shaping the demand for social insurance. Specifically, we … contrast at the language border actual voting decisions on country-wide changes to social insurance programs. Key results …

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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany

Quack, Sigrid - 2012

This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...

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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+

Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …

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On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries

Chong, Alberto; Olivera, Mauricio - 2005

regions such as Latin America. This proposal assumes that bureaucratic costs related with design and implementation are not …

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What Drives Differences in Inequality Across Countries?

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 2000

This paper presents microeconomic simulation techniques to examine what drives differences in inequality across countries. The simulation decomposes cross-country inequality differences into the importance of individual decisions, such as fertility, mating, labor force participation, and...

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Does Foreign Aid Help Reduce Income Inequality?

Calderón, Ma. Cecilia; Chong, Alberto - 2006

The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the link between foreign aid and income inequality for the period 1973-2002. Since simple cross-country regressions cannot be taken as `true` time series findings, we also focus on dynamic panel data techniques, which allow accounting for...

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Székely, Miguel; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2000

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares …

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory

Galor, Oded - 2009

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...

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