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Hatton, Timothy J. - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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European Asylum Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development

Chaudhary, Latika; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2024

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

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Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India

Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022

investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …

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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015

We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...

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