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Should We Worry About the Fiscal Numerology of Maastricht?

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …

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Inequality and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

-country differences in inequality permanent, or gradually narrowing? Equivalently, is there convergence not just in the first moment of … individual income (GDP per capita), but convergence in distribution? …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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