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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...
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The Heterogeneous Growth Effects of the Business Environment : Firm-Level Evidence for a Global Sample of Cities
Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017
business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees Around the World
Gindling, T. H. - 2017
This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are …, there are large net shifts from non-professional own-account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income …
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Small vs. Young Firms Across the World : Contribution to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2016
This paper investigates the contribution of small firms to employment, job creation, and growth in developing countries …. While small firms (<20 employees) have the smallest share of aggregate employment, the SME sector's (<100 employees … and employment growth, even after controlling for firm age. Large firms, however, have higher productivity growth …
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Gendered Language
Jakiela, Pamela - 2018
Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. Drawing on a broad range of historical and linguistic sources, this paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each...
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Unequal Laws and the Disempowerment of Women in the Labor Market : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Islam, Asif - 2017
Institutions are defined as the set of rules that govern human interactions. When these rules are discriminatory, they may disempower segments of a population in the economic spheres of activity. This study explores whether laws that discriminate against women influence their engagement in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947268
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2017
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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Variance and Skewness in Density Predictions : A World GDP Growth Forecast Assessment
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
surveys on expectations and implied statistics of predictive models. The BCEF procedure is applied to produce world GDP growth …
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Economic Growth, Convergence, and World Food Demand and Supply
Fukase, Emiko - 2017
percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …
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Does Rainfall Matter for Economic Growth? Evidence from Global Sub-National Data (1990-2014)
Damania, Richard - 2019
Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
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