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Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel?: The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment
Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …
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German MPs' Outside Jobs and Their Repercussions on Parliamentary Effort
Arnold, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
It is a longstanding debate whether members of parliament (MPs) should be allowed to follow sideline jobs in addition to their mandate. Critics claim that politicians already face binding time constraints and that moonlighting might lead to a neglect of inner-parliamentary duties. The purpose of...
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Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Bräuninger, Michael; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model, yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence … on the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment …
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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
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Do Absolute Majorities Spend Less?: Evidence from Germany
Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
The number of parties in government is usually considered to increase spending. We show that this is not necessarily the case. Using a new method to detect close election outcomes in multi-party systems, we isolate truly exogenous variation in the type of government. With data from...
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Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper...
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Improving Development Effectiveness through R&D: Dynamic Learning and Evaluation
Fiala, Nathan; Mangan, Cormac - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Research and development (R&D) is a common process in for-profit organizations. Despite the benefits, it is not routinely practiced in nonprofit organizations, in part because it is difficult to identify the effects of programs that are designed to involve individuals over long periods of time....
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Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia
Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
significantly slowed the growth trajectory of exposed children from herding households. This negative effect is still observable …
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Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda
Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
study. These results suggest that increasing access to credit and capital could stimulate employment growth in rural Africa …
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda
Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...
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