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Does Rewarding Pedagogical Excellence Keep Teachers in the Classroom? 奖励优秀教师能让教师留在课堂上吗?
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3305513
S. Berlinski, A. Fernández
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引用次数: 1
Domestic Antidotes to Sudden Stops 国内解药突然停止
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2017-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3103801
E. Cavallo, A. Izquierdo, John J. Leon-Diaz
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引用次数: 8
Current Expenditure Upswings in Good Times and Capital Expenditure Downswings in Bad Times?: New Evidence from Developing Countries 经济景气时经常支出上升，经济不景气时资本支出下降?:来自发展中国家的新证据
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2017-10-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3103799
Martín Ardanaz, A. Izquierdo
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引用次数: 20
When the Victor Cannot Claim the Spoils: Institutional Incentives for Professionalizing Patronage States 当胜利者不能索取战利品:职业化庇护国家的制度激励
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2016-04-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2956685
Christian Schuster
{"title":"When the Victor Cannot Claim the Spoils: Institutional Incentives for Professionalizing Patronage States","authors":"Christian Schuster","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2956685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2956685","url":null,"abstract":"Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for merit. The theory exploits exogenous variation in the institutional design of patronage states. In some, constitutions and budget laws monopolize patronage powers in the executive; in others, patronage benefits accrue to the legislature and public employees. When institutions fragment patronage powers and challengers control other government branches, merit becomes more incentive-compatible: it enables executives to deprive challengers of patronage while enhancing public goods provision to court electoral support. Drawing on 130 face-to-face elite interviews, a comparison of reforms in Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and the United States validates the theory. How patronage states are institutionally designed thus shapes their reform prospects: fragmented control over bad government can incentivize good government reforms.","PeriodicalId":424829,"journal":{"name":"Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126179746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 14
Sharing a Ride on the Commodities Roller Coaster: Common Factors in Business Cycles of Emerging 共享商品过山车:新兴市场商业周期的共同因素
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2015-12-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729736
Andrés Fernández, A. Gómez, Diego Rodríguez
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引用次数: 21
Party System Institutionalization and Reliance on Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 发展中国家政党制度制度化与对个人所得税的依赖
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2015-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729733
A. Schiller
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引用次数: 5
Enforcement and the Effective Regulation of Labor 劳动执法与有效规制
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2015-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729730
L. Ronconi
{"title":"Enforcement and the Effective Regulation of Labor","authors":"L. Ronconi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2729730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2729730","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory, they enforce them less, suggesting a more nuanced version of legal origin theory. The paper further hypothesizes that in territories where Europeans pursued an extractive strategy, they created economies characterized by monopolies and exploitation of workers, which ultimately led to stringent labor laws in an attempt to buy social peace. Those laws, however, applied de facto only in firms and sectors with high rents and workers capable of mobilizing. Finally, it is shown that territories with higher European settler mortality presently have more stringent de jure labor regulations, lower overall labor inspection, and larger differences in effective regulation of bigger firms.","PeriodicalId":424829,"journal":{"name":"Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125404107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
The Mystery of Saving in Latin America 拉丁美洲的储蓄之谜
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2015-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729668
O. Becerra, E. Cavallo, Ilan Noy
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引用次数: 5
Understanding Domestic Savings in Chile 了解智利的国内储蓄
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2015-10-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729731
R. Cerda, Rodrigo Fuentes, Gonzalo García, Josep Llodrà
{"title":"Understanding Domestic Savings in Chile","authors":"R. Cerda, Rodrigo Fuentes, Gonzalo García, Josep Llodrà","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2729731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2729731","url":null,"abstract":"This paper constructs time series data on savings per type of agent for Chile during the period 1960-2012. It is found that the economy's average savings rate increased by 11 percentage points in the period 1985-2012 compared to 1960- 1984, with particularly pronounced growth in corporate savings. The evidence suggests that this increase was driven largely by the following measures: i) pension reform that introduced mandatory savings and private sector management, ii) banking reform, iii) tax reform, iv) capital markets reform and v) privatizations.","PeriodicalId":424829,"journal":{"name":"Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series","volume":"329 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122837462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
The Political Economy of Pension Reform: Public Opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean 养老金改革的政治经济学:拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的民意
Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2015-09-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729665
Fabiana Machado, G. Vesga
{"title":"The Political Economy of Pension Reform: Public Opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"Fabiana Machado, G. Vesga","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2729665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2729665","url":null,"abstract":"Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change the status quo and avoid costly subsequent reversals. Taking advantage of several waves of public opinion data in Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper aims to identify and analyze individual-level factors that are relevant to gauging political support for pension reform.","PeriodicalId":424829,"journal":{"name":"Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121487704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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