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Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Parks in Ethiopia
Kebede, Selamawit; Heshmati, Almas - 2023
This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256080
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2021
setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile as a natural experiment. In our empirical analysis we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317152
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148349
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The Value of Redistribution : Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital Under Weak Institutions
Agüero, Jorge - 2017
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950918
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136945
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas Under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures : The Case of China
Liwen, Chen - 2011
under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117200
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Internal Migration in the United States
Molloy, Raven - 2011
We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121544
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Kwon, Oh-Hyun - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121750
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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154487
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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Micklewright, John - 2007
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777983