Does Foreign Aid Corrupt? A Theoretical Note
In: India Studies in Business and Economics; Understanding Development, S. 115-123
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In: India Studies in Business and Economics; Understanding Development, S. 115-123
In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Band 171, Heft 3, S. 493
ISSN: 1614-0559
In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Band 171, Heft 3, S. 493-511
ISSN: 0932-4569
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In: Pacific economic review, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 574-583
ISSN: 1468-0106
AbstractThis paper shows that international capital flow can lead to a rise in the relative wage between skilled and unskilled workers simultaneously in both capital‐exporting and capital‐importing nations. The impossibility of two‐sided wage inequality as an outcome of exogenous shocks has been previously discussed in the literature. We argue that such a result is highly probable when some industries vanish following changes in factor prices as a consequence of factor flows. The asymmetry in the nature of finite changes is the critical factor.
In: Pacific Economic Review, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 574-583
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We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase employment when faced with the opportunity of hiring workers in the informal labor market. Thus enforcement of labor laws and other regulations should not have aggregate employment effects, particularly when workers are productively homogeneous. For firms operating exclusively in the informal sector, the outcome is different. Such features determine the stringency of enforcement in a market characterized by firms with varying levels of productivity. For example, in case of firms with relatively high levels of productivity, enforcement has to be stricter than in the case with relatively low productivity firms. Taxing the more productive seems to be the optimal strategy.
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In: Bulletin of economic research, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 195-200
ISSN: 1467-8586
ABSTRACTUsing a Ricardian setting we argue that trade in technology generates higher global welfare relative to trade in goods. Hence, free trade in commodities can only be the second best outcome for the world welfare.
In: University of Nottingham, GEP Research Paper 2009/20
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In: Journal of international trade & economic development: an international and comparative review, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 453-461
ISSN: 1469-9559
In: Journal of international trade & economic development: an international and comparative review, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 21-35
ISSN: 1469-9559
In: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization; Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, S. 17-29
In: PEP MPIA Working Paper No. 2007-09
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In: The journal of policy reform, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 203-217
ISSN: 1477-2736
In: Group decision and negotiation, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 243-258
ISSN: 1572-9907
In: Journal of development economics, Band 72, Heft 1, S. 379-385
ISSN: 0304-3878