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Information technologies and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian Police : evidence from two randomized natural field experiments

Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; … - 2014

This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower … the digital renewal process makes use of information technologies as part of the renewal process. The second experiment …-it-takes to renew an identification card. We find that information technologies significantly improve the quality of public …

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Trade as a wage disciplining device

Persyn, Damiaan (contributor) - 2008

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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Globalisation, inequality and poverty relationships : a cross country evidence

Neutel, Marcel (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T. Kearney...

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Worker directors : a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2009

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...

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Asabiyya : re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...

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The effects of globalization on worker training

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006

We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms' incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others' workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes place....

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How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2006

The influential work of Ramey and Ramey (1995) highlighted an empirical relationship that has now come to be regarded as conventional wisdom that output volatility and growth are negatively correlated. We reexamine this relationship in the context of globalization a term typically used to...

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Product market integration and labour markets : aggregate gains at the cost of more inequality?

Andersen, Torben M. (contributor); … - 2007

"Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through structural changes. We find in a Ricardian trade model that aggregate increases in wages and employment...

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Exports, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

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