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We Can Work it Out - the Globalisation of Ict-Enabled Services
van Welsum, Desiree - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760485
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Political Limits to Globalization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148385
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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916620
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The Democratic Transition
Murtin, Fabrice - 2011
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120286
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088393
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071520
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The Value of Democracy : Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076579
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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2010
We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under quot;democratic federalismquot; the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759609
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Democratic Rulemaking
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2015
This paper examines to what extent agency rulemaking is democratic. It reviews theories of administrative rulemaking in light of two normative benchmarks: a “democratic” benchmark based on voter preferences, and a “republican” benchmark based on the preferences of elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011085
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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
major impact of web-based educational technologies will be the democratization of education: educational resources will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057833