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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

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Turf Wars

Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...

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Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Rossi, Martín A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...

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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

torn country. The deficits suggest that the Turkish state, Turkish civil society and European decision makers would be well …

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The Role of Historical Resource Constraints in Modern Gender Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations’ historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …, which has been marked by its colonization experience. Next I discuss the potential growth impact of state fragility, a …

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …

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