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The globalisation-welfare state nexus : evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962190
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The globalisation-welfare state nexus : evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927944
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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515477
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Trajectories to high income : comparing the growth dynamics in China, Korea, and Japan with cointegrated VAR models
Murach, Michael; Wagner, Helmut; Kim, Jungsuk; Park, … - 2020
We analyze and compare the patterns of economic growth and development in China, Korea, and Japan in the post … offer potentially valuable lessons for China. China is following a structural change that Korea and Japan underwent decades … for China and Korea than for Japan. Our hypothesis tests show that the estimated Cobb-Douglas production functions display …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206280
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The Economic Effects of Human Rights
Blume, Lorenz; Voigt, Stefan - 2004
Economists are often skeptical concerning the economic effects of various forms of human rights: it has been argued that basic human rights can make the legal system less efficient but also that extensive social rights are incompatible with market economies. It is argued here that basic human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263275
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Assessing the development gap
Sinitsina, Irina; Chubrik, Alexander; Denisova, Irina; … - 2007
Current report aims to identify major existing gaps in the four socio-economic dimensions (economic, human, environmental, and institutional) and to reveal those gaps which could potentially hinder social and economic integration of neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the authors aim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326581
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Post-Materialism: A Cultural Factor Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activ-ity Across Nations
Uhlaner, Lorraine; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004
The study of predictors of entrepreneurial activity at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. However, the relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other forces such as institutional and/or cultural factors are at play....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276797
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Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations
Uhlaner, Lorraine; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005
The study of predictors of entrepreneurial activity at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. However, the relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other forces such as institutional and/or cultural factors are at play....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276806
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing measures of economic activity (Pinkovskiy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484020
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Exchange rate volatility and investment : a panel data cointegration approach
Diallo, Ibrahima Amadou - In: Expert journal of economics 3 (2015) 2, pp. 127-135
This paper examines the link between real exchange rate volatility and domestic investment by using panel data cointegration techniques. We study the empirical connection between real effective exchange rate volatility and investment for 51 developing countries (23 low-income and 28...
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