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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

market economy and democracy. Our results show that the five best ranked countries are all western democracies. Our global … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a … advised to continue to support civil society and secular democracy in Turkey. …

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Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271250

Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 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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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...

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Mothers at Peace: International Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Fertility

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2023

A considerable body of empirical evidence indicates that conflict affects reproductive behaviour, often resulting in an increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less about the effect of peace in a post-conflict...

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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377294

Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015499

A pint a day raises a man’s pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of...

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Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use

Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Empirical studies have found that cannabis commonly precedes consumption of drugs like amphetamine, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin. As a result a causal linkage between cannabis and subsequent hard drug use has been hypothesized. Despite mixed empirical evidence and a limited understanding of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822523