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We test several hypotheses concerning the growth of public expenditure by the Austrian monarchy between 1870 and 1913 in relation to Wagner's law, as well as the impact of increasing public indebtedness and the expanding role of the Imperial Council towards the end of the analyzed period, using...
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China is undergoing its long-awaited industrial revolution. There is no shortage of commentary and opinion on this … fundamental mechanisms behind China's rapid industrialization. This article reviews the New Stage Theory of economic development …, despite sharp differences in political and institutional conditions. One of the key conclusions exemplified by China …
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This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory,...
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This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes are closely associated. Using cluster analysis, the author highlights historical legacies in current welfare policies, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been...
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