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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration

Morten, Melanie - 2016

How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...

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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from Us States

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...

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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance : Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...

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The sovereign-bank rating channel and rating agencies' downgrades during the European debt crisis

Alsakka, Rasha; Ap Gwilym, Owain; Tuyet Nhung Vu - In: Journal of international money and finance 49 (2014), pp. 235-257

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Reflections on Americans' Views of the Euro Ex Ante

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010

This paper was prepared for a session of the 2009 American Economic Association meeting devoted to examining the views of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro. I had written an article in 1992 in the Economist and...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2010

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Culture, Openness, and Finance

Williamson, Rohan - 2012

Religions have little to say about shareholders but have much to say about creditors. We find that the origin of a country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country's principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional...

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National Cultures and Soccer Violence

Miguel, Edward - 2010

disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …

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The Evolution of Culture and Institutions : Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom

Lowes, Sara - 2015

We use variation in historical state centralization to examine the impact of institutions on cultural norms. The Kuba Kingdom, established in Central Africa in the early 17th century by King Shyaam, had more developed state institutions than the other independent villages and chieftaincies in...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

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