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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …
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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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Development and gender inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2011
against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing countries and on the impact that gender inequalities … have on development. The first chapter investigates the impact of gender bias in education and employment on economic …
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Wandel von Erwerbsbeteiligung westdeutscher Frauen nach der Erstgeburt : ein Vergleich der zwischen 1936 und 1965 geborenen Kohorten
Kelle, Nadiya - 2011
provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one … 1956-65) is carried out. It is of interest whether and how the employment patterns have changed. Another question is what …
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Essays in applied economics
Alipour, Jean-Victor - 2023
This thesis consists of five independent chapters, studying how economic agents respond to unanticipated shocks. Chapter 1 shows that a well-intentioned policy can create unintended barrier to voting by creating seemingly small shocks to voting costs. Election administrators in Munich control...
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Fairness, technology adoption, water sanitation and pandemic control : six essays on four topics in development economics
Ghisolfi, Selene - 2020
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Essays in finance : the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on financial markets
Engelhardt, Nils - 2021
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