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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
Campos, Nauro F. - 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/10013153312
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317424
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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011
Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121335
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470
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Reform Reversal in Former Transition Economies (FTEs) of the European Union : Areas, Circumstances and Motivations
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E.; Székely, István P. - 2020
The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092625
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
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Reform Redux : Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780267
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Rebalancing Growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158044
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period … distance to the North; ii) an increase in LA's ETG to East Asia's level raises LA's TFP by some 100% and accounts for about 75 …% of its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) raising LA's education to East Asia's level has a larger impact on TFP and on the TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946575
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Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007
China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into corresponding improvements in the economic welfare of its citizens....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778329