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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money

Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024

Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. This is arguably most important in households with (young) children. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends, in part, on the time...

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Public school access or stay-at-home partner : factors mitigating the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on academic parents

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchikov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022

relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …

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Development versus Legacy : the relative role of development and historical legacies in achieving gender equality

Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke; Carmichael, Sarah - 2013 - This version: June 2013 (preliminary version)

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

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A touch of sophistication : FDI and unit values of exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2009

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...

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Labor unions, globalization, and mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - 2009

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...

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Natural resources : curse or blessing?

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010

Are natural resources a "curse" or a "blessing"? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...

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Financial development and income inequality

Jauch, Sebastian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2011

We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of 138 developed and developing countries over the years 1960 to 2008. Using credit-to-GDP as measure of financial development, our results reject theoretical models predicting a negative...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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Food prices and political instability

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...

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Location of foreign direct investment in vertically related markets

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2013

We provide an alternative explanation for the commonly observed FDI in developed countries (DCs) considering a vertically related market structure and endogenizing vertical technology transfer (VTT). We show that even though VTT is more costly in a less developed country (LDC), a multinational...

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