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Household Structures and Savings: Evidence from Household Surveys

de Laiglesia, Juan R.; Morrisson, Christian - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures differ greatly across countries and are very...

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Polygyny, Inequality, and Social Unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...

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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the Chinese have a competitive edge over Africans because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chineseʹs supposed...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Südekum, Jens; Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Why are East Germans not more mobile? Analyzing the impact of local networks on migration intentions

Schneider, Lutz; Bönisch, Peter - 2010

Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willingness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel, we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find that...

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

Marcen, Miriam - 2013

There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to … account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment … by exploiting variation in historical self-employment rates by country of origin of second-generation immigrants. Since …

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Spatial mobility and wage profiles: The role of general and location specific human capital matching

Morkute, Gintare - 2016

While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...

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Sectorial structure, qualitative characteristics and guidelines of labour mobility in the European Union

Heras, Raquel Llorente; Fernández, Carlos Iglesias; … - 2004

important characteristics of employment in European countries. For this, how different employed population groups are …. Keywords: labour mobility, employment, service sector, European Union. JEL-Code: J62, L80, F02 …

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