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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Trends in economic research: an international perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research …

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The effect of economic downturns on apprenticeships and initial workplace training: a review of the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio - 2009

The existing empirical evidence on the relationship between apprenticeships, initial workplace training and economic downturns, is relatively scarce. The bottom line of this literature is that ratio of apprentices to employees tends to be (mildly) pro-cyclical and to decline during a recession,...

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Setting the minimum wage

Boeri, Tito - 2009

The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...

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Do output contractions trigger democratic change?

Burke, Paul J.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of...

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Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance

Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010

Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...

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