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ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of social preferences over government unemployment insurance in Europe. We find an ‘East‐West divide’ in attitudes towards this role of government policy, with lower support in Eastern Europe for government action to correct adverse labour‐market outcomes.
Maqsood Aslam +3 more
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Biostratigraphy of the Ludlow chitinozoans from East Baltic drill cores [PDF]
The distribution of chitinozoans in the East Baltic Ludlow sequences was studied in the Ohesaare, Ventspils, Pavilosta, and Dubovskoye drill core sections.
Viiu Nestor, Nestor, Viiu
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Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck +4 more
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Innovation and the great divergence
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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The Military Component of the Autonomous Status of Finland in the Russian Empire
Examines the geopolitical status of Finland and its military-political situation in the Russian Empire throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Finland in Sweden was its eastern security belt, which consisted in readiness to support an attack to the
Alpo Juntunen
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Determining the resource requirements and the duration of activities are crucial points in project scheduling. Completing a project on planned time heavily depends on the activity durations and resources, which should be determined as accurately and ...
Engin, O. +3 more
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Optimal Hedging Strategies in the Low‐Sulphur Bunker Fuel Landscape
ABSTRACT The IMO2020 regulation for the green transition in shipping turned the industry into using two compliant bunker fuels: very low‐sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and low‐sulphur marine gas oil (LSMGO). VLSFO futures contracts introduced in late 2019 and other energy‐related futures contracts indicate that the VLSFO contracts trading on the Singapore ...
Xiwen Bai +2 more
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Estimating Total Post‐Release Mortality in a Boat‐Based Recreational Fishery
ABSTRACT Catch‐and‐release angling is widespread in marine recreational fisheries resulting from the implementation of enforced minimum legal sizes and increasing uptake of voluntary release. This makes recreational fisheries selective, with high release rates in certain cases.
Jade Q. Maggs +5 more
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A Translation Mining Approach to Grammatical Aspect: Insights from Slavic and Baltic Languages
This study investigates grammatical aspect in Baltic and Slavic languages using the Translation Mining methodology. Building on Dickey’s typology, which classifies Slavic languages into Eastern and Western aspectual groups, we employ quantitative corpus ...
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska +4 more
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