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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Do migrants improve governance at home? Evidence from a voting experiment
Batista, Cátia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010
designed to capture the population's desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271802
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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744568
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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
designed to capture the population’s desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466010
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Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Solan, Eilon - 2016
accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653124
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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the “Third Wave”, we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002561
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721628
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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748385
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Bagchi, Sutirtha; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...
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