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Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth : Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union
Campos, Nauro F.; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2022
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 … integration, the average Norwegian region would have experienced an increase in yearly productivity growth of about 0.6 percentage … points. This method also helps determining the sources of heterogeneity, apparently inherent to integration, highlighting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084021
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995608
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Trade and Economic Growth : Theories and Evidence from the Southern African Development Community
Farahane, Matias - 2020
African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823307
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F. - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097205
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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088332
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764240
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Millet, Rice, and Isolation : Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022
We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082396
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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD : A Short Overview
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2012
This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention is given to the rising trend of asylum applications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097861
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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-Term Solution of the Euro Crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016262
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044406