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We examine the impact of civil war on democratization. Using a theoretical bargaining model, we hypothesize that … prolonged violence, war termination, the presence of natural resources, and international intervention influence democratization … civil war lowers democratization in the succeeding period. This finding appears to be robust to conditioning, different …
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The present paper aims to analyze the consequences of neo-liberalism on the prospect of democratization in Latin … level of evaluation highlights the deficiency of an efficacious political democratization at the level of the State and the …
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investment flows (FDI) into democracies. I contend that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning … democratization (1991-2003). …
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This paper studies how society votes on the payroll taxes of a basic income and a social health insurance scheme. Individuals differ along the two most important dimensions when it comes to the design of the two welfare schemes, namely, income and risk. Even though the introduction of a basic...
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In this thesis, the idea of an unconditional basic income is investigated by means of sociological and public finance analyses, with results about structural problems of the Austrian tax and transfer system building the starting point. The unconditional basic income in the form of a negative...
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This article identifies the circumstances under which the introduction of a basic income in an efficiency-wage economy leads to the desirable effects of lower unemployment, nondecreasing real incomes and profits, and an increase of secondary- versus primary-sector wages. The model analyses show...
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This article identifies the circumstances under which the introduction of a basic income in an efficiency-wage economy leads to the desirable effects of lower unemployment, nondecreasing real incomes and profits, and an increase of secondary- versus primary-sector wages. The model analyses show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543020
This paper aims at proposing a first theoretical framework for studying the basic income sustainability. We consider the basic income not only as a tool of a policy to improve living standards and social well-being but, mostly, as the essential requisite to introduce a new stable compromise...
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The aim of this paper is to present a first theoretical macro-modelling of cognitive capitalism, by utilizing the French regulation theory approach. With regard to the supply side analysis, we shall emphasize the role played by productivity dynamics: it is mainly affected by two types of...
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By treating labor like any other tradable good, orthodox economic models ignore various features that define the specificity of the labor market (disponibility, solvability, alienation). Taking into account such features, as the new situation generated by the emergence of cognitive capitalism...
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