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The stage of development among former communist economies: Social capital, the middle class and democracy

Tridico, Pasquale - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 44 (2013) C, pp. 47-58

The aim of this paper is to trace, comparatively, the path of both development and democracy among Former Soviet Republics (FSRs) and Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Democracy is defined using the concept of Dahl (1971) who refers to “contestation” as the essential feature of...

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How are cultural dimensions and governance quality related to socioeconomic development?

Gaygısız, Esma - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 47 (2013) C, pp. 170-179

This study presents evidence about relations between national cultural dimensions, socioeconomic development and governance quality. Relations between Hofstede's dimensions, Schwartz cultural values, Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) and UNPD Human Development Index (HDI) were analysed by...

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Industrialization and environmental externalities in a Solow-type model

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Sordi, Serena; Ticci, Elisa - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 47 (2014) C, pp. 211-224

In this paper we examine the role played by environmental externalities in shaping the dynamics of an economy with two sectors (a farming sector and an industrial one), free inter-sectoral labor mobility and heterogeneous agents (workers/farmers and industrial entrepreneurs). We find that, in...

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Economic Liberalization and Rising College Premiums in Mexico: A Reinterpretation

Mehta, Aashish; Mohr, Belinda Acuña - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1908-1920

Mexico’s college premium rose in the 1990s. Studies employing structural decomposition analyses treat the college premium as the relative price of “skilled” to “unskilled” workers. They find that reallocations of labor across industries and occupations cannot account for rising college...

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Immigration and the origins of regional inequality: Government-sponsored European migration to southern Brazil before World War I

de Carvalho Filho, Irineu; Monasterio, Leonardo - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 794-807

This paper studies the long-term consequences of the government-sponsored programs of European immigration to Southern Brazil before the Great War. We find that the municipalities closer to the original sites of nineteenth century government sponsored settlements (colônias) have higher per...

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Are debt repayment incentives undermined by foreign aid?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 1073-1091

This paper investigates the effects of inflows of foreign aid on the debt repayment behavior of developing countries. The paper first delineates the overall incentives to committing to timely debt repayment in a war of attrition-type model. A set of panel estimates including 93 developing...

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“The people want the fall of the regime”: Schooling, political protest, and the economy

Campante, Filipe R.; Chor, Davin - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 495-517

We provide evidence that economic circumstances are a key intermediating variable for understanding the relationship between schooling and political protest. Using the World Values Survey, we find that individuals with higher levels of schooling, but whose income outcomes fall short of that...

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A note on slavery and the roots of inequality

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Assunção, Juliano J.; Goulart, … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 4, pp. 565-580

We use various secondary historical sources to compile a database containing information on the number of African slaves received by each destination country between the 16th and 19th centuries. We then construct a measure of intensity of African slavery use based on the flow of slaves received...

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A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000

Baten, Joerg; Juif, Dácil - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 2, pp. 375-401

We create a new dataset to test the influence of land inequality on long-run human capital formation in a global cross-country study and assess the importance of land inequality relative to income inequality. Our results show that early land inequality has a detrimental influence on math and...

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Informal employment and its effect on the income distribution in urban China

Xue, Jinjun; Gao, Wenshu; Guo, Lin - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 84-93

from the China Urban Labour Surveys of 2005 and 2010. Based on a new definition of informal employment, we estimated the … proportion of informal employment relative to total non-agricultural employment in urban China and found it to be 49.7% in 2005 … that the earnings gap explains more than half of the overall personal income inequality in urban China. These results …

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