We provide new evidence on the effect of minority elected state representatives on economic development and schooling in India. Using data on candidates in all state assembly elections from 1974 to 2017, we exploit two discontinuities in the reservation of constituencies for Scheduled Castes...

This chapter presents a tractable framework for the study of technology adoption and diffusion in the context of economic development. Firms in countries behind the world technology frontier can rapidly adopt new techniques from the world frontier. Lower absorptive capacity (because of weak...

The process of transition and growth in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) provides interesting insights, considering the countries' historical relationship with the Soviet Union. The 20 years after the Eastern enlargement of the European Union show an integrative power within the Single Market....

In the 1960s and 1970s elite studies formed an integral part of the research agenda on newly independent African states. Commentators sought to predict the likely political and economic paths of independent African states based on the social backgrounds and political orientations of existing...

Unternehmen sind mit ständigem Wandel und wachsendem Wettbewerbsdruck konfrontiert - Herausforderungen, die auch das Personalmanagement betreffen. Außerdem verändert sich der Arbeitsalltag für viele Beschäftigte, sodass die Instrumente des Performance Managements, insbesondere die...

Erstmals werden hier gesamtwirtschaftliche repräsentative Daten über die Stundenzahl auf den sogenannten Gleitzeit- oder Kurzzeitkonten der Beschäftigten in Deutschland vorgelegt. Über alle Wirtschaftszweige hinweg gab es im vierten Quartal 2023 einen positiven Saldo von insgesamt 473...

Im Jahr 2024 ist die Zahl der neu abgeschlossenen Ausbildungsverträge wieder leicht zurückgegangen und liegt weiterhin deutlich unterhalb des Niveaus vor der Corona-Krise. Im Zuge der anhaltenden Wirtschaftsschwäche bleiben viele Ausbildungsplätze unbesetzt. Eine Analyse mit den Daten des...

In konzentrierten Arbeitsmärkten weisen Betriebe hohe Marktanteile bei der Rekrutierung von Arbeitskräften auf und können über eine marktbeherrschende Stellung verfügen. Internationale Studien zeigen, dass eine höhere Arbeitsmarktkonzentration zu niedrigeren Löhnen und schlechteren...

Gender equality is associated with economic growth and resilience, yet various factors, including climate change, may stall progress toward equal rights for men and women. This paper analyzes historical temperature and precipitation fluctuations within countries to assess their effect on legal...

Low investments in human development (HD) are both a cause and a consequence of economic performance and income growth. Thriving populations in knowledge societies are skilled, mobile, healthy, and connected. However, in most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, human...

This paper explores how the three megatrends will affect the people of MENA and how, through emerging Human Development (HD) policies, the region can shape these trends and harness new opportunities while managing the risks. It first delves into the impacts of aging, climate change, and...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key driver of the energy transition and sustainable economic development. However, the specific mechanisms through which AI adoption impacts renewable energy production versus consumption remain poorly understood. This study addresses this research gap by...

There is a prevailing belief that international law can be harnessed to prevent international problems. However, international law is an intrinsic part of the current state of the capitalist world system. This issue is often overlooked in the dominant discourse. Yet, the international law,...

The rise of the middle classes in the Global South plays a key role in global development arguments characterized by "converging divergence," where there are decreasing inequalities between countries and increasing inequalities within countries. The concept of the middle class in the social...

Global development debate, which challenges the traditional North-South divide and focuses on the within-country or micro-level development perspective, argues that there is gender inequality in development within countries or at the micro level. It has brought a new dimension to the argument on...

The goal of economic development is to raise standards of living in LDCs, to be achieved by accumulating both human and non-human capital so as to maximize production net of the cost of these investments. An LDC economy is modelled with two sectors, modern and traditional, each of which uses its...

This study examines the complex relations between corruption, income inequality, and sustainable economic development within the European Union (EU) for the 2003-2023 period. Employing panel data for all 27 EU member states, as well as for the subgroups of Old (OMS) and New Member States (NMS),...

Entrepreneurs based in developing nations, as well as in contexts with significant corruption, find significant issues when seeking financing, and this was exacerbated by the 2008 financial crisis. Nevertheless, recently developed financial approaches such as international reward-based...

Rogowski et al. (2022) use secondary data to study the impact of historic postal infrastructure on economic development, both cross-country and within the US. Their results suggest a large positive effect of post offices on economic development that is robust across various sensitivity checks....

We revisit the iconic Kuznets (1955) paper, which postulated a clear positive relationship between inequality and economic development in the early stages of structural transformation. Using a newly released global dataset on income inequality-the WIID Companion-we set out the stylized facts of...