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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905008
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The anti-corruption campaign and the inter-generational transmission of working in bureaucracy : evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after … points more likely to work in bureaucracy, and that positive selection on human capital can explain only 12-25 percent of … the campaign, or changes in perceptions of bureaucracy. …
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Immigration and the informal laor market
Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Farré, Lídia - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229577
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Employment subsidies, informal economy and women's transition into work in a depressed area : evidence from a matching approach
Deidda, Manuela; Di Liberto, Adriana; Foddi, Marta; … - 2015
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a job and income, b) the outcome of the policy...
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The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns : evidence from Ghana
Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2021
In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612509
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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy
Tumen, Semih - 2016
I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580568
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Improving health and safety in the informal sector : evidence from a randomized trial in Bangladesh
Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Triyana, Margaret; Xia, Xing - 2023
Workers in small businesses in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to significant risks of occupational accidents and illnesses. A safe and healthy workplace could improve the productivity and sustainability of the business. In this paper, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280386
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A. (contributor);  … - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330459