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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe : A Long Run Perspective
Braga, Michela - 2011
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...
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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe - the Role of Services
D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011
. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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Labour Market Regulation in the Eu-15 : Causes and Consequences - a Survey
Siebert, Stanley - 2006
efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2013
We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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