relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interacting with production and sourcing decisions of multinational firms. In … a complementarity between the growth of global value chains and the emergence of NGOs: for a range of trade costs … trade costs, would be better-off in a world without NGOs. In an extension we show that NGOs may also crowd out investment in …

This paper studies the stability of coordination between mission-driven non-governmental organizations (NGOs) competing … for donations. We build a non-cooperative game-theoretic model of alliance formation between NGOs that compete through … is more likely, the steeper are NGOs’ (negatively sloped) best-reply functions. Under the aggregative rule, the …

Is competition for donations between development NGOs good for welfare? We address this question in a monopolistic … competition model à la Salop (1979). NGOs - defined by the non-distribution constraint - compete for donations from donors by … exerting fundraising effort. If the market size is fixed, the free-entry equilibrium number of NGOs is usually larger than the …

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and …

What are the effects of the integration of markets for private donations for development on NGOs’ performance? How is … donations with horizontally differentiated NGOs competing by fundraising effort. We compare three regimes: autarky, full … integration, and the regime of multinational NGOs (in which NGOs have to establish foreign affiliates to raise funds abroad). The …

We use spatial regression discontinuity analysis to test whether the historical partition of Poland among three empires …—Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia—has a persistent effect on political outcomes in contemporary Poland and to examine the channels …

in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and Active …: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …