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China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...
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How Do Tourists React to Political Violence?: An Empirical Analysis of Tourism in Egypt
Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper uses a detailed database of political violence in Egypt to study European and US tourists' attitudes towards … political violence and counter-violence on tourist flows to Egypt in the 1990s. We find that both US and EU tourists respond …. There is also evidence of tourism in Egypt being affected by the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, with arrivals of tourists …
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Corruption, Growth, and the Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis
Welsch, Heinz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …
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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household...
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The Shadow Economy in OECD Countries: Panel-Data Evidence
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, the extent of the shadow economy in OECD countries is investigated. The estimates of the size of the shadow economy are obtained using the panel-data techniques applied to the data on 38 OECD member states over the period 1991-2007. Our estimates tend to be somewhat lower than the...
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Top down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in Twelve European Countries
Schäfer, Andrea; Tucci, Ingrid; Gottschall, Karin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West...
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What Can Happiness Research Tell Us about Altruism?: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Schwarze, Johannes; Winkelmann, Rainer - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and...
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Estimating Crowding Costs in Public Transport
Haywood, Luke; Koning, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Preferences for transport activities are often considered only in terms of time and money. Whilst congestion in automobile traffic increases costs by raising trip durations, the same is less obvious in public transport (PT), especially rail-based. This has lead many economic analyses to conclude...
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When Can We Trust Population Thresholds in Regression Discontinuity Designs?
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
A recent literature has used variation just around deterministic legislative population thresholds to identify the causal effects of institutional changes. This paper reviews the use of regression discontinuity designs using such population thresholds. Our concern involves three arguments: (1)...
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Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008
Kröger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...
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