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Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...

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Impact of Duration of Primary Education on School Outcomes: A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez, Jessica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...

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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: Ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Praktisch alle wirtschaftlich entwickelten Länder der Welt sind demokratisch. Sind demokratische Strukturen also kausal für wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand und Wachstum? Oder ist es vielmehr der wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsstand eines Landes, der eine Demokratie erst ermöglicht? Dieser Artikel...

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...

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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … the geographic, economic, political, and cultural differentiation of medieval Italy. The long-term influence of medieval …

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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....

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Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez, Jessica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...

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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and … employees (n = 2288). The results indicate that entrepreneurs perceive themselves as less risk averse than managers and …

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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

DiNardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

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Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe

Jurajda, Stepán; Paligorova, Teodora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even …

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