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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform

Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino (contributor); … - 2007

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Hierarchical structure in Brazilian industrial firms : an econometric study

Façanha, Luis Otávio (contributor); … - 2007

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Digital tools and the derailment of Iceland's new constitution

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Meuwese, Anne - 2016

constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as 'digital democracy …

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Wages, human capital, and structural transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold; Schoellman, Todd - 2017

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...

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egalité? : a survey of the empirical evidence on the links between political democracy and income inequality

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko - 2000

between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience …

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When is a state predatory?

Robinson, James A. - 1999

I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...

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War and democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 1999

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader's ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is va luable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...

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Democracy and international conflict

Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016

During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...

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The rise of the "no party" in England

Aidt, Toke; Rauh, Christopher - 2019

We document a remarkable increase over the past two and a half decades in the fraction of people in England feeling close to no party - the rise of the "no party" - which, today, is close to constituting an absolute majority. We develop a new method to distinguish between age, period, and cohort...

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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country's democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …

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