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Salarios agrícolas durante la industrialización en Chile: Factores económicos e institucionales
Campos, Nora Reyes - In: Estudios de Economía 42 (2015) 2, pp. 121-141
The role of the agricultural sector during the ISI period and the debate about the agricultural wage and the living conditions of the farm workers have a long historiography. But until today there is little information about workers' income in the long run. In this paper we want to reflect about...
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Medium term effects of culture, transactions and institutions on opportunity entrepreneurship
Petrakis, Panagiotis E.; Kostis, Pantelis C. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
, institutions and transactions are exogenous for the economic and societal system. The paper aims to explore the roles of cultural … institutions is conducive to opportunity entrepreneurship. Performing a sensitivity analysis, we construct a hypothetical, more …
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Do (successful) stock exchanges support or hinder institutions in transition economies?
Hartwell, Christopher A. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-18
supporting institutions such as property rights and rule of law. But how do these two aspects of the institutional environment …
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Conditions for high-potential female entrepreneurship
Terjesen, Siri A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Female-led ventures that are market-expanding, export-oriented, and innovative contribute substantially to local and national economic development, as well as to the female entrepreneur’s economic welfare. Female-led ventures also serve as models that can encourage other high-potential female...
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The effect of emigration on home-country political institutions
Lodigiani, Elisabetta - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
substantially during the last decades. At the same time, the quality of institutions in developing countries has also improved. The … findings indicate that emigration to institutionally developed countries induces a positive effect on home-country institutions. …
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Monitoring, endogenous comparative advantage, and immigration
Qirjo, Dhimitri - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-22
institutional quality, where the country with more developed institutions serves as the host country of immigrants. We conclude that …
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Response mode and stochastic choice together explain preference reversals
Collins, Sean M.; James, Duncan - In: Quantitative Economics 6 (2015) 3, pp. 825-856
Informed by Grether and Plott (1979) and Cox and Grether (1996), we implement various preference elicitation procedures over a parameter grid. First, we find a lower incidence of preference reversals for probability equivalents from the dual-to-selling version of Becker, Degroot, and Marschak (1964;...
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Energy and Institution Size
Fix, Blair - In: PLoS ONE 12 (2017) 2, pp. 1-22
Why do institutions grow? Despite nearly a century of scientific effort, there remains little consensus on this topic … and energy consumption per capita: as energy consumption increases, institutions become larger. I hypothesize that this …
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A stronger union through crisis? 25 years of monetary integration in Europe
Fichtner, Ferdinand; König, Philipp - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 27, pp. 376-384
introduction of the euro. This path was marked by a compromise between two schools of thought-those who assumed that the creation …
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Über die Krise zur Einheit? 25 Jahre monetärer Integrationsprozess in Europa
Fichtner, Ferdinand; König, Philipp - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 27, pp. 639-647
introduction of the euro. This path was marked by a compromise between two schools of thought-those who assumed that the creation …
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