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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a …

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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...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; DROMEL, Nicolas L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...

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Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...

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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy and it increases the … that democracies are ineffective, regardless of joblessness. People's beliefs about the effectiveness of democracy as …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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