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Perception vs. experience : explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata
Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019
Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
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New insights into ECCU's tourism sector competitiveness
Ghazanchyan, Manuk; Zhao, Li; Brito, Steve; Parlak, Vivian - 2019
Tourism has become the main driver of economic growth and employment and the most important source of income in the ECCU. Preserving and, possibly, enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism product is key for these countries. Unfortunately, the evidence shows that tourism arrivals to the ECCU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102139
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The comparative constitutional compliance database
Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2022
This article introduces a novel database that measures governments’ compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816165
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The comparative constitutional compliance database
Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023
This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503406
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Financial development and inequality in the global economy
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage … inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are many high-productive firms (those that export), financial development may … have opposite effects - especially if trade costs are low. In sum, the implications of financial development for inequality …
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The impact of monetary policy on inequality in the UK : an empirical analysis
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theophilopoulou, Angeliki - 2016
The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate … whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining this increase in inequality. We find that contractionary monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431334
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Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design
Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2000
The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433685
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
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Decomposing differences in health and inequality using quasi-objective health indices
Heger, Dörte - 2016
People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint...
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