manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy, and it increases the … year is the main source of the impact. Joblessness-related negative attitude towards the effectiveness of democracy is not …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …

Democracy is defined by two core tenets: voice and pluralism. Within these constraints, a wide variety of regime types … can be designed. We show that the only new, untested form of democracy is when every citizen is governed by the political … one sovereign only over the people who chose to vote for it - hence the name: Choice Democracy. Choice Democracy can be …

non-hostile country. The result is a non-monotonic relationship between democracy and peace. Using the Polity IV dataset …

paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In … globalization effect on child health. If e.g. Côte d'Ivoire was a democracy in the 2000-2009 period, this effect would translate …

This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift …

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to …