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Convergence to the Managerial Frontier
Maloney, William F.; Sarrias, Mauricio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the … those of its close competitors. Part of the process of convergence to the frontier across the development process represents … that lag the frontier benchmark. Among potential explanatory variables that may drive convergence, ownership and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790511
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The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884341
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321839
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325443
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395439
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399722
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742948
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Informality and Long-Run Growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-skilled workers from extreme poverty in the short-run, it prevents income convergence between developed and developing nations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733809
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Introduction thématique
Jacquemot, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
Africa has been hard hit by the international crisis. Initially exogenous and above all financial, it has exacerbated various internal crises already present in the region. Like the DRC, which is a test case in many respects, Africa could experience severe setbacks that could cancel out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742293
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Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584367