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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'

Barnett, Andy; Yandle, Bruce; Naufal, George S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...

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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...

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What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?

Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion sectors. I show union density to increase in countries experiencing strong manufacturing growth, and to decline...

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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...

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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey's place on them. Our study, which is based … value development index ranks Morocco twelfth – just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a …

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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the...

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Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time

Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we … achievement in Turkey. Second, the inequality of opportunity in educational achievement shows a slightly decreasing trend over … time in Turkey. Third, the inequality of opportunity figures based on the mathematics, science and reading achievements …

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

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