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Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices

Oh, Jong-Eun; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index (LSI). It is composed of six components: general economics, employment,...

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Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

New growth models consider the role of technology in production. The link between product flows and information flows in international trade suggests investment in information technology as a leading sector in the developing countries growth. Several studies establish relationships between...

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umana-Aponte, Marcela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses …

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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...

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Cross Sections Are History

Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...

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