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Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories
(American Economic Association, 1999)
We analyze the relationship between inequality and economic growth from two directions. The first part of the survey examines the effect of inequality on growth, showing that when capital markets are imperfect, there is ...
National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Job Autonomy Is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the United States, Canada, and Australia
(Sage Publications, 1999)
We present evidence that, across countries, similar jobs carry very different levels of autonomy. Workers in Nordic countries have greater discretion than workers in the United States, Canada, and Australia, all else being ...
Competition, Financial Discipline and Growth
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 1999)
This paper develops a general equilibrium model of technological adoption in an economy populated by 'satisficing' entrepreneurs whose main objective is to minimise innovative effort while keeping the firm alive. In such ...
Novel regulation of the homeotic gene Scr associated with a crustacean leg-to-maxilliped appendage transformation.
(The Company of Biologists, 1999)
Homeotic genes are known to be involved in patterning morphological structures along the antero-posterior axis of insects and vertebrates. Because of their important roles in development, changes in the function and ...
Political Demands, Political Opportunities: Explaining the Differential Success of Left-Libertarian Parties
(Oxford University Press, 1999)
Using qualitative comparative analysis, we examine why left-libertarian parties, associated with environmental and other "new social movements," have been relatively successful in some western democracies but not others. ...
Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment by John F. Mahon; Richard A. McGowan
(Cornell University, The Johnson School, 1999)
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest by Wendy Nelson Espeland
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
The Interdependence of Israeli and Palestinian National Identities: The Role of the Other in Existential Conflicts
(Blackwell Publishing, 1999)
The interactions between identity groups engaged in a protracted conflict lack the conditions postulated by Gordon Allport in The Nature of Prejudice (1954) as necessary if contact is to reduce intergroup prejudice. The ...
Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
By the time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. Analysts argue that they did so in response to the feminization of the workforce. This study charts ...