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An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Among Generalized Morality, Institutions, Generalized Trust and Economic Growth
James, Jr., Harvey S. - 2013
Generalized morality reflects ethical norms in society about the inappropriateness of behaviors that can cause harm to others. Generalized morality may be an important factor affecting the economic performance of countries. A measure of generalized morality is constructed from data from the...
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263745
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to understand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262142
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The Effect of Abortion Liberalization on Sexual Behavior : International Evidence
Klick, Jonathan; Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2013
Most industrialized countries have increased access to abortion over the past 30 years. Economic theory predicts that abortion laws affect sexual behavior since they change the marginal cost of having risky sex. We use gonorrhea incidence as a metric of risky sexual behavior. Using a panel of 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206276
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La distinction reloaded : returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - 2010
The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children's academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary...
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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697310
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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668026
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Decomposing Beveridge curve dynamics by correlated unobserved components : the impact of labour market reforms in Germany ; conference paper
Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo - 2014
, was retarded by an overlay with a structural increase in tightness. …
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Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency
Pedraza, Pablo de; Guzi, Martin; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2020
Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are … market tightness, measured as the number of vacancies per job-seeker rather than the number of vacancies per unemployed, is …
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