This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...

Unskilled labor is the abundant resource in many developing countries, especially at an early stage of their development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion of an institutional or bargaining wage not based on...

This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries and ethnic groups exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically higher along the pre-Islamic...

Am 3. Oktober 2015 wurde der 25. Jahrestag der deutschen Wiedervereinigung gefeiert. Das Ende der Teilung eröffnete große Chancen und neue Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten. Heute zeigen sich enorme Fortschritte, die bei der Verbesserung der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lebensbedingungen erreicht...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die „mentalen“ Diskrepanzen und Unterschiede in der Auffassung ökonomisch relevanter Präferenzparameter wie Vertrauen und Risikoeinstellung zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschen und geht der Frage nach: Ist Konvergenz bei den untersuchten Größen zwischen Ost...

In Schottland, Flandern, Katalonien und Norditalien wird der Ruf nach mehr Autonomie, mehr Selbstbestimmung und sogar nach nationaler Unabhängigkeit laut. Welche Kräfte treiben diese separatistischen Bewegungen an? Ist es der Überdruss am zu großen Zentralismus und am Suprastaat EU? Oder...

Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to...

This paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model outlining how globalization can lead to the evolution of an urban structure which may approximate Zipf's law. Policy implications are outlined.

Satellite data on nighttime luminosity is an increasingly popular proxy for economic activity in developing countries. However, their use for analyzing inequality and convergence on a global scale is severely limited by top-coding of the NOAA satellite images, which fail to accurately capture...

We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...