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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Global business cycles : convergence or decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups - industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...

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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned...

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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor); … - 2007

audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three …

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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations

Haltiwanger, John C. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data-set drawn from business registers and enterprise census data. The paper assesses the importance of technological...

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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...

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UN interventions : the role of geography

Duque, Juan Carlos; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago - 2014

This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …

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Robots at work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...

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The economics of employment protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing...

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