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Culture, policies and labor market outcomes
Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - 2009
evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …
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Mixed Economy of Welfare Emerging in Poland: Outplacement and Non-Governmental Employment Agencies Examples
Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 4 (2015) 2, pp. 110-134
different entities; and (2) the cooperation between the public employment services and non-governmental employment agencies in … directions for further research in the field of integration of employment services. …
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; … - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
Asadullah, Niaz - 2016
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At the same time, there is significant social distance...
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Funding conservation locally: Insights from behavioral experiments in Indonesia
Nelson, Katherine M.; Schlüter, Achim; Vance, Colin - 2016
Proximate stressors such as destructive fishing are key drivers of coral reef degradation. Conservation strategies that marshal local action and are tailored to the preferences of the target group are thus needed to sustain coral resources. We experimentally analyze the behavior of marine...
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A replication of four quasi-experiments and three facts from 'The effect of file sharing on record sales: an empirical analysis' (Journal of Political Economy, 2007)
Liebowitz, Stan J. - 2016
The influential piracy paper by Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf, although mainly based on proprietary data, contained an 'important complement' to the main results, consisting of four "quasi-experiments" using publicly available data. This replication examines all of these...
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Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
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What's in a Name in a War
Jurajda, Štepán; Kovač, Dejan - 2016
We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that having been given a first name that is synonymous with the leader(s) of the fascist Croatian state during World War II predicts volunteering for army service in the 1991-1995...
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
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Social interactions and aspirations formation in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew - 2016
The recent literature postulates that aspirations are one of the key determinants of economic decision making, and that aspirations are formed socially through observations and by learning from 'relevant others' (or the 'reference group'). This study empirically examines the latter using survey...
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