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Dynamic ethnic fractionalization and economic growth in the transition economies from 1989 to 2007
Campos, Nauro; Saleh, Ahmad; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy - 2009
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923596
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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488146
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Hobbes to Rousseau : inequality, institutions, and development
Cervellati, Matteo (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002543970
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Social harmony at the boundaries of the welfare state : immigrants and social transfers
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000
The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336874
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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Job market outcomes of IDPs : the case of Georgia
Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto; Obrizan, Maksym - 2018
, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are only a handful of previous studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796092
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2005
evidence on transition economies. -- credit constraints ; distribution ; economic development ; entrepreneurship ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225929
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102
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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
estimated. -- reform : liberalization ; privatization ; political economy ; transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310965
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Transition fatigue? : cross-country evidence from micro data
Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2009
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860717