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The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2004

Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we … investigate whether ILO conventions have contributed to reducing the scale of the problem. We use two approaches to answering the … question. Evidence based on country-level data shows that, by 1990, countries having ratified ILO conventions were in no …

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European Monetary Policy and the ECB Rotation Model – Voting Power of the Core versus the Periphery

Belke, Ansgar; von Schnurbein, Barbara - 2010

We analyze the ECB Governing Council's voting procedures. The literature has by now discussed numerous aspects of the … rotation model but does not account for many institutional aspects of the voting procedure of the GC. Using the randomization …

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European monetary policy and the ECB rotation model voting power of the core versus the periphery

Belke, Ansgar; von Schnurbein, Barbara - 2010

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Gibt es Schelte für Bundestagsabgeordnete, die nicht mit ihrer eigenen Partei stimmen?

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 12, pp. 26-29

Werden Bundestagsabgeordnete von ihren Parteien abgestraft, wenn sie in namentlichen Abstimmungen im Bundestag nicht mit ihrer Partei stimmen? Betrachtet wurden alle 218 namentlichen Abstimmungen in der Legislaturperiode 2009–2013 für 257 über die Liste in den Bundestag eingezogene...

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Explaining de facto judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2005

A high degree of de facto judicial Independence (JI) functions as a crucial precondition of governments to credibly commit to legislative decisions, such as respecting private property rights. Thus, de facto JI should improve the allocative efficiency and may therefore contribute positively to...

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Structural reforms and the exchange rate regime: a panel analysis for the world versus OECD countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - 2005

We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate...

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: A panel analysis

Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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Shadow Economies and Corruption all over the World: What do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...

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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: New Estimates for 145 Countries

Schneider, Friedrich G. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-9, pp. 1-66

Estimations of the shadow economies for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over 1999 to 2005 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 96 developing countries is 36.7%, in 25 transition...

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