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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006

Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...

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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Lay, Jann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment … patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime' comply with sharing norms, are insured but reduce investment in their … firm, whereas entrepreneurs in the 'growth regime' are not insured but take undistorted investment decisions. The choice of …

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Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men’s incentives for sharing...

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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Bagchi, Sutirtha; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...

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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...

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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the “Third Wave”, we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than...

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