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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764589
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351699
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend- also known as Petty's law - is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377253
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Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict
Bharati, Tushar; Jetter, Michael; Malik, Muhammad Nauman - 2022
anti-government attitudes. On the contrary, cell phone and internet penetration and usage correlate with greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351850
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The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market
Bellou, Andriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887066
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The impact of internet diffusion on marriage rates: Evidence from the broadband market
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293205
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A Vague Theory of Choice over Time
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We propose a novel approach to modelling time preferences, based on a cognitive shortcoming of human decision makers: the perception of future events becomes increasingly ‘blurred’ as the events are pushed further in time. We axiomatise a class of preference representations which can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822581
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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822632
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Goals and Psychological Accounting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow psychological accounts) rather than jointly (in a broad account). To explain this evidence, our theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144852
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"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371862