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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Do Financial Inclusion Indicators Affect Banks’ Profitability? Evidence from Selected Arab Countries

Jouini, Jamel; Obeid, Rami - 2022

The study aims to investigate the effects of financial inclusion on the performance of the banking sector, measured by the return on assets, for a set of 11 Arab countries over the 2013-2019 period in the dynamic panel data framework. In addition to financial inclusion indicators, We include...

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Effects of Concentration on Stability of the Banking Sector : Evidence from Selected Arab Countries

Obeid, Rami - 2022

The study continues in the same momentum of empirical works on the concentration-stability relationship of the banking sector by examining such a relationship for a panel of 15 Arab economies over the 2013-2019 period in the framework of dynamic panel data models and by controlling for auxiliary...

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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy

Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024

industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both … successfully to the knowledge economy. Such adaptation is not automatic, however. Rather, it depends on the willingness of key … changed fundamentally, primarily because of technological change. Adaptation to the needs of the knowledge economy is thus …

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Is there fiscal space for financing an Arab development transformation?

Roy, Rathin; Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Almeida Ramos, Raquel - 2012

[Introduction] The fundamental development challenge in the Arab region is one of economic transformation or, more pertinent, a lack thereof. Heavy sectoral weights of extractive industries lead to dependence on global oil prices, even in oil-producing countries. The structure of production...

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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts

Tyler, John H. - 2002

This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displace- ment. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of dis- placed women with those of women una®ected by job loss after establish- ing the...

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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?

Wiklund, Fredrik - 1999

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011

This paper links the two fields of 'development traps' and 'brain drain'. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low level of...

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