Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

influence the investment decisions of entrepreneurs and the performance of their firms. In general, a hybrid political order … family-owned dominance in business; and by skewing investment decisions. Specifically, we find that family firms whose …

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the … two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure spending can differ across regions. This assumption follows well … revenue and expenditure decisions is the optimal fiscal arrangement for the country when infrastructure spending productivity …

patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human … capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective policy to reduce …

generally very similar. Our results suggest that public investment in human capital, telecommunications infrastructure, and the …), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality … regulatory infrastructure can mitigate the gap in PC and Internet use. …