Location and welfare in cities: impacts of policy interventions on the urban poor
In: Policy research working paper 3318
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In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, Band 12, Heft 1
ISSN: 1935-1682
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This paper analyzes the parking behavior of United Nations diplomats in New York City and highlights the key limitation of an earlier work which claims cultural norms to be the significant determinant of corruption. We show that after controlling for Government Effectiveness index, which measures the quality of civil services and quality and quantity of public infrastructure in a country, the effect of culture on corruption becomes insignificant. However, the Country Corruption index and the Government Effectiveness index are strongly correlated which makes it difficult to identify the causal determinant of corruption. It is important to keep this correlation in mind before arriving at conclusions from empirical studies, because Country Corruption index could be proxying for other influences such as Government Effectiveness index, and ignoring this might lead us to falsely attribute the observed behavior to cultural or social norms alone. Understanding the relative importance of these potential causes of corruption is fundamental to policy recommendations.
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w15404
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In: Innovations: technology, governance, globalization, Band 2, Heft 1-2, S. 82-90
ISSN: 1558-2485
In: https://doi.org/10.7916/D88P7GJ1
In this paper we examine the impact of India's labor regulations on employment and wages through the lens of the apparel and textiles industry, India's largest manufacturing employer. In addition to exploiting cross-state variation in labor regulations, we take advantage of the 2005 abolition of quota restrictions on developing countries' exports of apparel and textiles products to the developed world and use this as a natural experiment to identify the effects of labor regulations. Employing a difference-in-difference strategy, we find economically and statistically significant gains in post-2005 employment and wage in the apparel and textiles industry in states that maintained more flexible labor regulations as compared to states with inflexible regulations. These gains are either absent or muted in the case of labor intensive industries other than apparel and textiles.
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In: Karl P. Sauvant, Vishwas Govitrikar and Ken Davies, eds., New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2011
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