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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566444
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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment - A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands
Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703624
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Capital Accumulation and Growth: A New Look at the Empirical Evidence
Bond, Steve; Leblebicioglu, Asli; Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700962
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Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections
Kauppi, Heikki; Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761730
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Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock
Verick, Sher; Letterie, Wilko; Pfann, Gerard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762023
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
factor productivity, GDP volatility, negative returns on investment, and a labor force that is too reliant on government … encouraging increased domestic, especially private, investment. Well-targeted policies should be adopted to accelerate reform and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884109
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885187
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Danish administrative data we test the theoretical implications of the model. The data does not reject our theory. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212756
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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015462
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
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