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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact. …

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International education and economic growth

Bergerhoff, Jan; Borghans, Lex; Seegers, Philipp K.; … - 2013

In recent years international student mobility increased. While net hosting countries are in a better position to win highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of continental Europe these costs are not levied on students,...

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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

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The happy cultural omnivore? : exploring the relationship between cultural consumption patterns and subjective well-being

Bertacchini, Enrico; Bolognesi, Valentina; Venturini, … - 2021

implications for culture-led welfare policies. …

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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

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Everybody's a victim? : global terror, well-being and political attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018

, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …

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Is man doomed to progress?

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...

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Regional convergence in Russia : estimating a neoclassical growth model

Lehmann, Hartmut; Oščepkov, Aleksej Ju.; Silvagni, … - 2020

In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...

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Multidimensional measurement of richness : theory and an application to Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef (contributor); … - 2005

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...

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