After the Keynesian social policies achieved an unprecedented increase in the material standard of living under state-managed welfare capitalism, the neo-liberal counter-revolution appeared following economic and political turmoil in the 1970s. As it was in the 19th century, today liberal...

In this paper, we investigated the role of socio-economic factors like income, unemployment levels, and non-economic factors such as religion, identity and culture to explain the reasons for disparity of happiness levels among Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands by applying a...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper tries to empirically verify the argument that institutional factors such as enforcement mechanisms, political and economic stability, stable and reliable, transparent legal and regulatory framework and corruption are critical in explaining the behaviour of the foreign direct...

This paper evaluates the relative impact of different types of benchmarks such as internal and external comparisons on subjective well-being in Turkey. There are few studies on life satisfaction for Turkey and they mostly focus on the impact of socio-demographic effects on subjective well-being....

The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of different types of income comparison on subjective well-being in transition countries and developed European countries. The paper relies on the Life in Transition Survey (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development <CitationRef CitationID="CR8">2011</CitationRef>), which was...</citationref>

This paper compares the political economy of foreign direct investment (FDI) in relation to economic development strategies and legal framework for foreign firms in Egypt and Turkey. The paper briefly examines the FDI performances of these countries starting from the end of the nineteenth...

The major focus of this paper is on the relationship between political, social and economic institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in developing economies. For a decade, the relationship between institutions and Foreign Direct Investment has been receiving growing attention. The link between...

This paper examines political economy of MNCs in NIEs in East Asia. It focuses on the relationship between MNCs and the states in these countries. This study argues that MNCs played important role in the industrialization of some of these countries. But there are countries such as South Korea...

This paper tries to empirically verify the argument that institutional factors such as enforcement mechanisms, political and economic stability, stable and reliable, transparent legal and regulatory framework and corruption are critical in explaining the behaviour of the foreign direct...