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

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

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …

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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview

Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...

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Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The …

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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

Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...

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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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Employment Protection and Product Market Regulation

Koeniger, Winfried; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Product market regulation and employment protection are highly correlated across OECD countries. Using an augmented model of monopolistic competition we show why in countries with more regulated product markets, incumbent workers prefer to protect jobs relatively more. Product market regulation...

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Collective Dismissal Cost, Product Market Competition and Innovation

Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Collective dismissal costs are an important part of employment protection legislation (EPL) and make firms' exit more costly. We show in a model with step-by-step innovations that dismissal costs spur innovation if product markets are not too competitive: technologically more advanced firms...

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Product Market Regulation and Endogenous Union Formation

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We contribute to the growing literature which aims to link product market regulation and competition to labor market outcomes, in an attempt to explain the divergent US and continental European labor market performance over the past two decades. The main contributions of this paper are...

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