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Why do girls' and boys’ gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations differ across countries? : how cultural norms and institutional constraints shape young adolescents' occupational...
Leuze, Kathrin; Helbig, Marcel - 2015
Occupational sex segregation persists in all European and OECD countries; yet in some countries, it is more pronounced than in others. In this paper we seek to explain these cross-national variations by analyzing the realistic occupational aspirations of 15-yearold pupils in 29 EU and OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280756
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Ethnic Geography: Measurement and Evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777585
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Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Danquah, Michael - 2020
alternative estimation approaches and alternative ways of measuring ethnic diversity. Our results also show that trust, which is … probability of engaging in informal work. Our results point to the need for policies that promote trust between diverse ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424113
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Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa
Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018
-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957221
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Internal borders : ethnic-based market segmentation in Malawi
Robinson, Amanda Lea - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 371-384
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606818
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Diversity, institutions and entrepreneurship
Ayob, Abu H. - In: Journal for international business and entrepreneurship … 12 (2020) 4, pp. 298-315
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415336
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Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Danquah, Michael - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 7, pp. 1312-1331
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362345
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The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis among Migrant Entrepreneurs
Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Arribas-Bel, Daniel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper highlights the ‘magic of diasporas’ − as a source of progress in a globalizing world − with special attention for migrant (or ethnic) entrepreneurship. The present study aims to identify and examine the critical critical success factors of migrant enterprises and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257029
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Social and institutional factors as determinants of economic growth: Evidence from the United States counties
Rupasingha, Anil; Goetz, Stephan J.; Freshwater, David - In: Economics of Governance 81 (2002) 2, pp. 139-155
In the search for explanations of persistent differences in economic growth rates, the conditional convergence growth model has introduced the possibility of incorporating a wide set of factors as determinants of growth. Controlling for spatial dependence, we assess the contribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010794927
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Social and institutional factors as determinants of economic growth: Evidence from the United States counties
Rupasingha, Anil; Goetz, Stephan J.; Freshwater, David - In: Review of Economic Design 81 (2002) 2, pp. 139-155
In the search for explanations of persistent differences in economic growth rates, the conditional convergence growth model has introduced the possibility of incorporating a wide set of factors as determinants of growth. Controlling for spatial dependence, we assess the contribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010758695