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Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure....
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Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...
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Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...
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This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of … coup d'état and establish a new dictator. The relationship between oil endowment and the duration of the dictatorial regime … is modulated by the price of oil. Applying an empirical survival model on data for the duration of 106 dictatorships …
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these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of trade duration across regions and to identify its determinants … variables on the duration of trade relationships from 96 countries from 1995 to 2004. Our results suggest first that the … duration of trade relationships increases with the region level of development: trade relationships from richer economies face …
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end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on …
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