of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the …

of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the …

and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide …-level survey data on the frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation … Survey (CIS). We find robust evidence supporting a software-bias in innovation in that software development is associated …

education on conflicts and conditioning on tertiary schooling, income inequality potentially drives conflicts in African states …. However, in contexts where income inequality (tertiary schooling) is high, tertiary schooling (inequality) mitigates conflict …. Two important policy implications follow from this study. First, in contexts where income inequality is high (for instance …

the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …

This paper presents new evidence on the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using a panel data … methodology, we find that lower corruption is associated with higher income inequality in Latin America. This result is in … relationship between inequality and corruption suggests that institutional reform policies by themselves may be misguided …

five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la …

centralization, plurality, rule of law, security of property, economic liberty, measured by 12 indicators) and improvements in human … development (income, education, health) and violence limitations (conflict-related death tolls) to separate effective from … institutional development in the Congo in a colonial and post-colonial and hence long-run setting; secondly, we identify periods of …