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The ratification of ILO conventions: a failure time analysis

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2000

There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are … industrialised countries, the ratification of ILO conventions is shown to depend on internal political factors such as the …

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Bayesian estimation of Cox model with non-nested random effects: an application to the ratification of ILO conventions by developing countries

Horney, Guillaume; Boockmann, Bernhard; Djurdjevic, Dragana - 2005

We use a multivariate hazard model for the analysis of data on the timing of ratifications of different conventions. The model accounts for two random effects, one at the country level and the other at the convention level. We use a semi-parametric Bayesian approach, based on the partial...

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Country or leader? Political change and UN general assembly voting

Dreher, Axel; Jensen, Nathan - 2009

In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United … Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting …'s voting with the United States. In this paper we explore how leadership change affects UNGA voting. Using differences between …

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Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations?

Dreher, Axel; Boockmann, Bernhard - 2007

We investigate voting behavior on human rights in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Our central question is … voting would suggest that these countries aim to weaken UN human rights resolutions since they could be future targets of …. We estimate determinants of voting on the basis of 13,000 individual voting decisions from 1980 to 2002. Our results from …

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The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2004

Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we … investigate whether ILO conventions have contributed to reducing the scale of the problem. We use two approaches to answering the … question. Evidence based on country-level data shows that, by 1990, countries having ratified ILO conventions were in no …

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments´ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Explaining de facto judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2005

A high degree of de facto judicial Independence (JI) functions as a crucial precondition of governments to credibly commit to legislative decisions, such as respecting private property rights. Thus, de facto JI should improve the allocative efficiency and may therefore contribute positively to...

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Structural reforms and the exchange rate regime: a panel analysis for the world versus OECD countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - 2005

We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274933

Shadow Economies around the World : What Do We Know?

Schneider, Friedrich G.; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004

Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...

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