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Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Well?
Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …
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Two Views on Institutions and Development: The Grand Transition vs. the Primacy of Institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566215
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Global Factors, Unemployment Adjustment and the Natural Rate
Smith, Ron P.; Zoega, Gylfi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a range of common patterns. Using a panel of 21 OECD countries 1960-2002, we estimate the common factor that drives unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083387
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Labour Supply and Labour Force Participation in Europe, A Discussion of Some Recent Developments and Projections
Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg; Plane, Mathieu; Schmidt, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force … years. However, the impact of this development on unemployment is rather limited. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755180
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Global Factors, Unemployment Adjustment and the Natural Rate
Smith, Ron; Zoega, Gylfi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a range of common patterns. Using a panel of 21 OECD countries 1960-2002, we estimate the common factor that drives unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700510
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983174
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Youth and inexperience: Dynamic inconsistency among emerging adults
Gibbons, Brian; Paxton, Julia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
Why do some people think they will behave differently in the future? Building on research on dynamic inconsistency and age related preferences, this paper introduces the concept that inconsistent intertemporal preferences are directly related to age. In previous studies, standard socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203164
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A counterfactual decomposition analysis of immigrants-natives earnings in Malaysia
Anees, Muhammad; Sajjad, Muhammad; Ahmed, Ishfaq - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory describes wage determination as a function of labour human capital and should be determined based on marginal productivity theorem of labour economics. Islamic theology also...
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Does Migration Raise Agricultural Investment? An Empirical Analysis for Rural Mexico
Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
The effect of remittances on capital accumulation remains a contested topic. This paper uses a panel data set from rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886841
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the Emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886978