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Do left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants? : empirical evidence from the German states
Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020
We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...
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Do public sector employment reductions promote informality?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2023
Using information from all IMF conditionality programs from 1990 to 2018, we implement a dynamic Augmented Inverse Probability Weighting Regression Adjustment approach to examine the effects of programs, including public sector dismissals, on the size of the shadow economy. The estimated effect...
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Working for a good cause
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013
among workers in less-developed countries. -- public service motivation ; altruism ; mission preferences ; sorting ; World …
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
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Nature, power, and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and …
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Natural resources and economic growth : what is the connection?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This paper reviews the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and stresses how natural capital tends to crowd out foreign capital, social capital, human capital, andphysical capital, thereby impeding economic growth across countries and presumably also over time....
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...
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Stock markets, banks and long run economics growth : a panel cointegration-based analysis
Cavenaile, Laurent; Gengenbach, Christian; Palm, Franz C. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...
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Is the relationship between financial development and economic growth monotonic? : evidence from a sample of middle income countries
Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
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Transportation costs and the great divergence
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
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