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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?

Giuliano, Paola - 2006

conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …

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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 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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Does culture affect divorce decisions? Evidence from European immigrants in the US

Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …

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Ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation in Estonia

Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; Leetmaa, Kadri; … - 2011

Large scale suburbanisation is a relatively recent phenomenon in East Central Europe and responsible for major socio-spatial changes in metropolitan areas. Little is known about the ethnic dimensions of this process. However, large minority population groups, mainly ethnic Russians, remained...

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Ethnic Dimensions of Suburbanisation in Estonia

Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; Leetmaa, Kadri; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Unemployment in East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - 2007

unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … economies with an otherwise similar and spatially close market economy is useful because it enables us to identify the main …

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New labour? The impact of migration from Central and Eastern European countries on the UK labour market

Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - 2008

The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...

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Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies: Is there a threshold effect?

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...

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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2013

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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