Comparing the Countries and Explaining the Differences
Lobbying and Growth: Explaining Differences among OECD Countries
... Growth: Explaining Differences among OECD Countries ♦ Mehmet Babacan ∗ Abstract The paper is an attempt to observe the effects of the development of rent-seeking or lobbying groups on the growth pace ...
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Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries
... 18 countries could be explained by wage ...in countries with higher wage ...of countries for 1991-94, 1994, and the late 1990s found that several measures related to wage dispersion did not add ...
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The Youth Experience Gap: Explaining Differences across EU Countries
... historical differences, and also very costly to implement especially for countries were youth unemployment is very high, such as the Southern Mediterranean and transition ...
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Explaining nascent entrepreneurship across countries
... the differences in nascent entrepreneurship across countries at one moment in time ...(2002), comparing so-called total entrepreneurship activity (TEA) rates for 29 countries in 2001 and 2002 ...
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Explaining International Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe
... International Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe Introduction Recent years have seen a surge in the literature on overeducation (see McGuinness (2006) and Sloane (2003) for ...individual ...
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Generativity in Young Adults: Comparing and Explaining the Impact of Mentoring
... was collected after the quantitative phase. The qualitative data collected in response to the quantitative generativity results allowed important findings to surface that otherwise might have been missed by the ...
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Factors Explaining Life Satisfaction Across Countries
... between countries for each of the variables. Because of these large differences, it is interesting to see how each of these measures vary between countries of different income ...
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Explaining Differences in Scientific Expertise Use: The Politics of Pesticides
... 4.2.1. A Tale of two Regulatory Approaches: Laboratory Research vs. Field Research As already discussed, there are contradictions to be found when comparing scientific evidence coming from laboratory studies and ...
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Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Gender-Task Stereotypes
... Table 6 reports the choices of incent. In both tasks, less subjects chose the tournament when comparing a mixed (random) group to an all-male group. Likewise, more subjects tend to compete when comparing ...
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Comparing workfare regimes: similarities, differences, and exceptions
... The power of central government matters in explaining qualitative differences between the British and German workfare regimes. In Germany strong constitutional protections for state and local government and ...
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
... that countries are identical except in terms of productivity and life ...that countries differ in the initial level and growth of productivity z and g; and in the level and rate of change in life ...across ...
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Explaining Different Outcomes of Party Bans in African Countries
... ethnicitiesBETTER ARGUMENTATION, IS NOW CONTRADICTION. This one event caused many causalities, but the number of events concerning inter-ethnic conflict kept decreasing. A Government’s Guide to Party Banning The analyses ...
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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship across 29 countries
... merely comparing the coefficients of the various explanatory variables as the measurement units are ...the countries in our data set, ranging from 2,450 US$ for India to 34,870 US$ for the United States, an ...
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Explaining the gaps in labour productivity for some developed countries
... explain differences in productivity and economic growth across countries by differences in political and economic institutions, and differences in culture, geographical location, policies, and ...
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Explaining the gaps in labour productivity in some developed countries
... that differences in institutions, culture, laws, and geography can explain productivity differentials between developed and developing countries they are too small to explain productivity differentials ...
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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
... cross-country differences with US firms on average better managed than European firms, and significant within-country differences with a long tail of extremely badly managed ...
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Explaining price differences between physical and derivative freight contracts
... forward freight markets are real or simply a result of time-varying risk premia or physical basis risks. Fourth, our research is closely related to the important question of default risk in physical time-charters. Adland ...
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Explaining differences in efficiency A meta study on local government literature
... of countries with a high integrity of their legal system report efficiency scores higher than studies focusing on countries with an ineffective legal system, and thus with a low level of economic ...
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Explaining Anglo German productivity differences in services since 1870
... other countries, Germany already had an unusually large share of both employment and GDP in manufacturing before World War II, so further expansion in this direction would have been surprising, particularly given ...
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Recovery from the Great Recession: Explaining Differences Among the States
... veloping countries, is changing dietary preferences and resulting in increases in both agricultural output and real prices (President’s Council of Economic Advisers, ...
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