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Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates - and among which groups - is important because most labor … emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highlyeducated workers to leave … unemployment, lowering the returns to human capital and encouraging further emigration. Corruption also shifts public spending from …
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corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness are the indicators which are statistically different for these sets of …
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of corruption, solid political and economic stability determine significant effects on most financial variables … factors the main results hold, in that monitoring corruption, maintaining political stability and designing sound economic …
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analyse social variables such as unemployment and standard of living, and political variables such as corruption, political … stability, government effectiveness, rule of law and the level of corruption in the migration of citizens. For this purpose, we … migration. The paper does not find a statistically significant influence of the level of corruption on migration. The …
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Although there is valuable literature on areas of corruption, such as political and corporate corruption, a limited … number of papers have examined the determinants of administrative corruption. To the best of our knowledge, the multivariate … impacts of political instability and institutional weakness on administrative corruption, and the interplay between these …
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This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. Extended and harmonised data on effective redistribution recently provided by the newest version of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database allows for the assessment of the origins of governmental redistribution...
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This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...
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We study how a fragmented political landscape affects fiscal policy and economic growth with a sample of 15 Indian States over the period 1980-2000. We measure state-level political fragmentation with an inverse Herfindahl index for party vote shares in the state legislature. Our results show...
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