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This paper investigates the relationship between the social inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and technological innovation. It establishes that LGBT inclusion helps foster human capital skills, thus strengthening national innovative capacity. Exploiting...
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This research explores the historical roots and persistent effects of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a novel ethnic-level dataset, which combines geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that population...
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This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
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The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on ‘trust and growth: a shaky relationship” by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …
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This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it shows that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015261856
This paper empirically investigates the extent to which the social inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people matters for technological innovation. The central hypothesis, in particular, postulates that the acceptability of LGBT individuals helps foster human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015266325
The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on ‘trust and growth: a shaky relationship” by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015236953
Berggren and Elinder (BE) in this journal write on the relationship between the degree of tolerance in a nation and its rate of economic growth. They are disturbed to find in their cross sections that faster economic growth statistically goes together with intolerance of homosexuals. In this...
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We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
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shifted the policy debate from growth to inclusive growth. In this short note, we revisit the trust-growth nexus by exploiting … variables are used as additional controls. The findings broadly support the positive role of trust in QG. In addition …, relatively high thresholds of inequality are needed to change this positive trust-QG nexus in some distributions. …
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