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Dynamic ethnic fractionalization and economic growth in the transition economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro; Saleh, Ahmad; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy - 2009

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...

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Can Religion Insure Against Aggregate Shocks to Happiness? The Case of Transition Countries

Popova, Olga - 2010

This paper focuses on the effects of reforms and religion on happiness in transition economies. Previous literature … marital separation. I estimate an econometric model to study if religion also insures against aggregate shocks to happiness … religion and analyzes the effects of religion on life satisfaction, and perceptions of the current economic and political …

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Infrastructure, human capital development and economic growth in transitional countries

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa; Ndou, Adam - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 22 (2019) 1, pp. 33-52

This study investigated the impact of infrastructure and human capital development on economic growth in transitional economies. It also explored whether the interaction between infrastructural and human capital development enhanced economic growth in the transitional economies. Although the...

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Institutions, Human Capital and Development

Acemoglu, Daron; Gallego, Francisco A.; Robinson, James A. - 2014

In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement...

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Social transfers and growth : the missing evidence from luminosity data

Villa, Juan M. - 2014

The effects of social transfers on growth are still unclear. The limitations of aggregated data at sub-national levels have confined the analysis to the use of simulation models and household surveys. As an alternative, this paper contributes to the empirical literature by assessing the effects...

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Re-evaluating the economic costs of conflicts

Fonseca, Mariana Lopes da; Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2015

This paper studies the economic costs of conflicts at the country and ethnic group settlement level with light output data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a worldwide dataset of 7,704 individual ethnic group...

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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis

Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012

The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...

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Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers

Kupets, Olga - 2015

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...

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Returns to language skills in transition economies : speaking English has its benefits in transition countries but can it supersede Russian?

Mavisakalyan, Astghik - 2017

In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound independence from the Soviet Union and openness to the rest of the world. Such reforms may have implications for individuals’ economic opportunities, since foreign language proficiency...

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Foreign direct investment and growth : EU, EMU and transition economies

Angelopoulou, Anastasia; Liarnkobas, Panagiōtēs - In: Journal of economic integration 29 (2014) 3, pp. 470-495

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