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Did Covid-19 affect the division of labor within the household? : evidence from two waves of the pandemic in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021
during the pandemic on the traditional division of household labor in Italy using survey data from interviews with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534702
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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy
Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016
This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the analysis argues that (ex) members of parliament are appointed to managerial boards in italian (partially) state-owned enterprises responding to political selection rationales....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571525
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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283837
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Ethnic inequality and economic growth : evidence from harmonized satellite data
Gründler, Klaus; Link, Andreas - 2024
Inequality between ethnic groups has been shown to be negatively related to GDP, but research on its effect on contemporary economic growth is limited by the availability of comparable data. We compile a novel and comprehensive dataset of harmonized Gini indices on ethnic inequality for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505856
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EU cohesion policy on the ground : analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data
Bachtrögler, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022
We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...
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What explains Germany's rebounding export market share?
Danninger, Stephan (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496786
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Spatial exporters
Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2011
In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388381
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Where you export matters: measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets
Fang, Jianchun; Gozgor, Giray; Pekel, Sercan - 2020
Using data from the World Uncertainty, World Trade Uncertainty, and World Pandemic Uncertainty indices for 142 countries, this paper introduces three new indicators for measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets from the first quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2020. The indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240442
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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010
We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2011
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010055