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Does corruption promote emigration? : an empirical examination
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …
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How does corruption affect public debt? : an empirical analysis
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013 - Revised version
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208991
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015
Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - Revised version
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646238
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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015
Schneider, Friedrich; Medina, Leandro - 2017 - Revised version
This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697985
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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286638
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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380403
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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349170
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How do trade openness and public expenditures affect health status in OIC member countries? : an empirical analysis
Farooq, Fatima; Zulkornain Yusop; Chaudhry, Imran Sharif - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 13 (2019) 4, pp. 1041-1056
This paper investigates the impact of trade openness and public expenditures on health status in OIC member countries. Panel data of 47 OIC member countries from 1991 to 2017 is taken from the World Development Indicators (WDI). The econometric results areestimated using GMM technique to avoid...
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Trade openness and public expenditure on labor market policies
Borghi, Elisa - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752672