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market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in the short run …This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …
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option. The paper confirms a direct relationship between three independent variables (life expectancy, corruption perception … study demonstrated that a decrease in the dimension of corruption leads to an increase in the human development, since the … growth of corruption perception index is associated with a fall in the corruption dimension. On the other hand, an inverse …
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assets, growth rate of output, employment, corruption plus government regulations, taxes, political and economical stability … increased employment and household income, poverty will be decreased and Georgian economy will be developed. The paper also …
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pronounced. The adverse effect of higher unemployment on life satisfaction is partially offset by the positive impact of lower …
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor … that poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor governance were significant causes of Niger Delta militancy …
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Fraud is one of the most harmful phenomena, because it leads to collapse of organizations, causes economic downfall of countries, and destroys faith in a country's capital markets. The impact of fraud is complex and has varying degrees depending on political and financial institutional...
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
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Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...
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I show that it is optimal to separate non-benevolent regulators when regulated projects are large. Separation prevents regulators from coordinating to appropriate all of the agent's informational rent when they know the type of the latter; therefore, there is a trade-off between saving on...
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