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Explaining the (non-) causality between energy and economic growth in the US: A multivariate sectoral analysis

Gross, Christian - 2011

The rapidly growing literature on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth has not univocally identified the real causal relationship yet. We argue that bivariate models, which analyze the causality at the level of the total economy, are not appropriate - especially in...

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The vertical transmission of time use choices

Volland, Benjamin - 2012

The present paper analyzes intergenerational correlations in leisure time use between parents and their adult children … formation. Data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is used to regress time use choices of children on the behavior … 7% for voluntary work. Moreover we provide evidence that direct transmission of parental preferences to their children …

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Inter-firm rivalry and firm growth: Is there any evidence of direct competition between firms?

Coad, Alex; Teruel, Mercedes - 2010

Inter-firm competition has received much attention in the theoretical literature, but recent empirical work suggests that the growth rates of rival firms are uncorrelated, and that firm growth can be taken as an essentially independent process. We begin by investigating the correlations of the...

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Life satisfaction and self-employment: A matching approach

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2010

Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satisfied with their lives as a whole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life, such that the...

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Parting with "blue monday": Preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations

Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011

How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...

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The rank of a system of engel curves: How many common factors?

Barigozzi, Matteo; Moneta, Alessio - 2011

By representing a system of budget shares as an approximate factor model we determine its rank, i.e. the number of common functional forms, or factors, spanning the space of Engel curves. Once the common factors are estimated via approximate principal components, we identify them by imposing...

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Converging wages, diverging GRP: Directed technical change and endogenous growth. Empirical analysis of growth patterns across Kazakh regions

Aldashev, Alisher - 2011

The paper analyzes unequal regional development in Kazakhstan. Applying the nonlinear least squares method in presence of spatial correlation we estimate the convergence rate of wages across Kazakh regions for the period 2003-2009. The estimated convergence rate is about 3% which is somewhat...

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Determinants of internal migration in Kazakhstan

Aldashev, Alisher; Dietz, Barbara - 2011

In this paper we analyze the determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008-2010. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on interregional population flows in Central Asia. We find that migration is determined...

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Private donations, government grants, commercial activities, and fundraising: Cointegration and causality for NGOs in international development cooperation

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012

NGOs could help scale up foreign aid efforts by mobilizing private donations. However, fundraising activities do not necessarily result in higher donations, and substitution effects between different sources of revenue may diminish the overall pool of NGOs' resources. This paper examines the...

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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...

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