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Issues and problems in human resource development in the NER (India)

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

institutions will have to start technical and professional education programs. Several new educational institutions will have to be …

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Social Networks and Labour Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

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Why effects of social capital on health status differ between genders: considering the labor market condition

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper explores how social capital is related with self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship is affected by gender, using data for 3075 adult participants in the 2000 Social Policy and Social Consciousness (SPSC) survey. Controlling for endogenous bias, unobserved city...

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Il volontariato può sostenere lo sviluppo? Riflessioni metodologiche per la costruzione di un frame work teorico

GAROFALO, MARIA ROSARIA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The main question of this paper is to investigate if and how the voluntary sector – as an institutional agent of the third sector - matters for the local development path. By adopting a multimensional and relational approach to the development, the paper surveys, compares and overlaps three...

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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …

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Income and Democracy

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the political economy literature that higher income per capita causes democracy. Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not typically control for factors that simultaneously affect...

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Democratization and Growth

Papaioannou, Elias; Siourounis, Gregorios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper challenges cross-sectional findings that democratic institutions have a negligible direct effect on economic … institutions. We study democratization in a before-after event study approach that enables us to control for time-invariant country … representative institutions on economic activity. They also favour Friedrich Hayek (1960)’s idea that the merits of democracy appear …

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Institutions and Economic Change: The Experience of Baja California

Ramirez-Urquidy, Martin; Mungaray, Ana Barbara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper analyzes the economic changes and the changes in some welfare indicators associated to the political alternation and to a changing institutional framework in the Mexican state of Baja California. The paper uses the institutional approach to economic development under the hypothesis...

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Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to addresses this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends - in a subtle way - on the details of democratic...

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Long Term Persistence

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of independence fostered by the free city-states...

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