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'Cultural Persistence' of Health Capital : Evidence from European Migrants

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of...

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Assessing the Effects of Climate Policy on Companies' Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Montoya, Ana Maria - 2017

and subsidiaries of the world's biggest manufacturing, energy, and utility companies. Our results suggest that financial …

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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …

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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change : An Assessment for the European Union

Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2021

adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …

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Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland

Lorentowicz, Andzelika - 2006

Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria … and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …

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Moretti, Luca - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

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Somatic Distance, Cultural Affinities, Trust and Trade

Mélitz, Jacques - 2018

Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...

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Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2018

An influential body of psychological and anthropological theories holds that societies exhibit heterogeneous cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce cooperative behavior. According to some of these theories, entire...

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Ancestry, Language and Culture

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

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Culture, Diversity, and the Welfare State

Gründler, Klaus - 2018

We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...

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