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Do institutions affect social preferences? : evidence from divided Korea
Kim, Byung-Yeon; Choi, Syngjoo; Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae; … - 2013
democracy than South Korean subjects. Attitudes toward institutions are more strongly associated with the experimental behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793140
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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization
Grosjean, Pauline (contributor);  … - 2008
Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. -- Democracy ; income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722148
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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708703
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The brain drain : curse or boon?
Commander, Simon (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001769065
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646693
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Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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Market orientation and gender wage gaps : an international study
Zweimüller, Martina (contributor);  … - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591492
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Roots of inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287027