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Democracy and reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271245
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Democracy and Reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762354
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Determinants of poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268400
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The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270292
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468120
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959810
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia Danzer (née … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761796
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Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653178
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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
Dube, Arindrajit - 2017
, 100, and 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non …-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.22 and -0.55 across alternative specifications that subsume …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653300
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Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria
Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873442