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Competition for People as Drivers of Future Economic Growth : European People’s Attitudes Towards Migration
Paas, Tiiu; Halapuu, Vivika - 2012
measures for improving peoples’ attitudes to immigration and to ethnically diverse human capital that support future economic …. We analysed peoples’ attitudes to migration in 23 European countries based on the micro-data of the European Social … Survey fourth round database. The outcomes of the empirical analysis show that European peoples’ attitudes toward immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173469
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409398
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Economic growth and judicial independence : cross country evidence using a new set of indicators
Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2003
Rational politicians are interested in judicial independence (JI) in order to make their promises credible. But if politicians preferences deviate from the dicta of the judiciary, they also have incentives to renege on judicial independence. These two conflicting aspects are measured by two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507670
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Making judges independent : some proposals regarding the judiciary
Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2004
It is argued that an independent judiciary is a necessary condition for both individual liberty and economic prosperity. After having surveyed the literature dealing with how to arrange for an independent judiciary, the authors derive some additional policy implications by drawing on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450509
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The Economic Effects of Judicial Accountability: Some Preliminary Insights
Voigt, Stefan - 2005
Judicial independence is not only a necessary condition for the impartiality of judges, it can also endanger it: judges that are independent could have incentives to remain uninformed, become lazy or even corrupt. It is therefore often argued that judicial independence and judicial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263281
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The relevance of judicial procedure for economic growth
Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
It has been argued that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the predictability of court decisions, which leads to more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806039
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The relevance of judicial procedure for economic growth
Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
It has been argued that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the predict-ability of court decisions, which leads to more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866068
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Making judges independent : some proposals regarding the judiciary
Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2004
It is argued that an independent judiciary is a necessary condition for both individual liberty and economic prosperity. After having surveyed the literature dealing with how to arrange for an independent judiciary, the authors derive some additional policy implications by drawing on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261246
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Catching Up and Catch-Up Effect : Economic Growth in Post-Communist Europe (Lessons from the European Union and the Eastern Partnership States)
Papava, Vladimer - 2018
The article discusses the economic growth models in post-Communist countries of European Union and Eastern Partnership states. According to the combinatorial augmentation concept, there are new combinations for which the resources for old combinations are practically useless as they require the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910780
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Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years On : Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators
Voigt, Stefan - 2016
Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively measuring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper presents more recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006031