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We analyse the profile of potential emigrants from Albania using data from the Central and Eastern Europe Eurobarometer …
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The most dramatic recent immigration in Europe is the influx of more than 700,000 Albanians, about a quarter of the total Albanian workforce, in the 1990s. The vast majority migrated illegally. This paper analyses the detfirminants of Albanian migration based on a unique representative survey of...
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We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for … higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …
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empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …
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two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
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two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
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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 …
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Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and highpersistence of income and democracy, we … find a statistically significant positive relationbetween income and democracy for a postwar period sample of up to 150 …
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Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants … determinant of environmental policies, while democracy has a very limited impact. Further on, we discuss our results in the …
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This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
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