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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

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Civic capital in two cultures : the nature of cooperation in Romania and USA

Ellingsen, Tore; Herrmann, Benedikt; Nowak, Martin A.; … - 2012 - This version: November 2012

We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards and punishments. U.S. groups perform well because...

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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economies

Nam, Chang-woon - 2002

The East Asian miracle was real. Prior to the 1997 economic and currency crises, Asian NICs Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan achieved remarkable annual GDP growth. In these countries the overall economic performance was significantly determined by the industrial development triggered by...

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Why are single-sex schools successful?

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Kwak, Do Won - 2017

We exploit two unusual policy features of academic high schools in Seoul, South Korea - random assignment of pupils to high schools within districts and conversion of some existing single-sex schools to the coeducational (coed) type over time - to identify three distinct causal parameters: the...

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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2005

affiliates located in CEE. A one percent larger wage gap between Sweden and CEE is estimated to be associated with 140 fewer jobs …

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The efficiency of educational production : a comparison of the Nordic countries with other OECD countries

Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranæs, Torben - 2015

indicator of output quality, Finland is the most efficient Nordic country (often fully efficient), whereas Sweden and especially …

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Labor market effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its neighbors : evidence from novel administrative data

Juranek, Steffen; Paetzold, Jörg; Winner, Hannes; … - 2020

’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …

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Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance

Morath, Florian - 2011

Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...

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The influence of special interests and party activists on electoral competition

Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2012

This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....

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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?

Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

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