scholarly journals Product Complexity, Quality of Institutions and the Protrade Effect of Immigrants

World Economy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Briant ◽  
Pierre-Philippe Combes ◽  
Miren Lafourcade
Keyword(s):  
Product Complexity ◽  
Quality Of Institutions

Engineers or Lawyers? Institutions and Demand for Higher Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 30-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Natkhov ◽  
L. Polishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting “rules of the game” in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate the quality of institutions (rule of law, protection of property rights etc.) is negatively associated with the demand for education in law, and positively — in sciences and engineering. More gifted younger people are particularly sensitive to the quality of institutions in choosing their fields of study, and such selection is an important transmission channel between institutions and economic growth.

scholarly journals INTRA ASEAN-5 CAPITAL FLOWS: DO THEY REPRESENT NEOCLASSICAL BELIEF OR LUCAS PARADOX?

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-182
Author(s):  
Nurul Qolbi ◽  
Akhmad Syakir Kurnia
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Capital Flow ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Marginal Product Of Capital ◽  
Asean Countries

In the neoclassical belief, capital flows downhill from rich to poor countries as a consequence of capital endowment variation. In contrast to the neoclassical belief, Lucas found evidence that capital tends to flow uphill. This paper investigates the intra ASEAN-5 capital flows. Using panel estimation, we found that marginal product of capital, human capital, total factor productivity growth, and the quality of institutions appear as determinants for the capital flow from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand to Singapore as a host country. On the contrary, the capital flow from Singapore to other ASEAN countries as host countries is encouraged only by the quality of institutions, human capital as well as per capita GDP. The result shows that Lucas variables emerge as determinants for the uphill and downhill capital flow in ASEAN-5. In the meantime, marginal product of capital that represents neoclassical variable appears as the determinant for uphill capital flow from other ASEAN countries to Singapore. This gives significant insight that Lucas variables emerge as companion to the neoclassical variables in explaining intra ASEAN capital flow

scholarly journals Quality of higher education institutions and graduate satisfaction at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (32) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Miriam Janet Cervantes López ◽  
Arturo Llanes Castillo ◽  
Alma Alicia Peña Maldonado ◽  
Jaime Cruz Casados
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Quality Of Institutions

Higher education institutions face the challenge that their graduates have the competences that allows them to quickly enter to the labor market and obtain an adequate economic remuneration. us graduate satisfaction is a key element in the assessment of the quality of institutions, since it allows us to know their perception regarding the quality received in their professional training. e objective is study the quality of higher education institutions and the satisfaction of the graduate in the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas. e methodology is descriptive and transversal  based on graduates information and satisfaction. As a result, Students are satisfied with their professional training received and their expectations were met since the academic level of the institution is good. It is concluded that studies on student satisfaction are useful for higher education institutions to identify educational and administrative priorities about the service they provide.

The quality of institutions: Problems of definition and evaluation

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
V. L. Tambovtsev
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern ideas about the quality of institutions concept, and the development on this basis of its generalized and operational understanding. The interpretation of the quality of the institution as its legitimacy from the point of view of stakeholders of the institution’s performance is grounded. Starting from the understanding of the object or process legitimacy as a recognition of its right to exist, an approximate question is proposed for conducting sociological surveys to assess the quality of institutions. In the final section of the article, the evolutionary definition of the concept of quality is proposed, and it is shown that the identification of the institutions quality with their legitimacy is fully consistent with this definition.

scholarly journals Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Areendam Chanda ◽  
C. Justin Cook ◽  
Louis Putterman
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Reversal Of Fortune

Using data on place of origin of today's country populations and the indicators of level of development in 1500 used by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002), we confirm a reversal of fortune for colonized countries as territories, but find persistence of fortune for people and their descendants. Persistence results are at least as strong for three alternative measures of early development, for which reversal for territories, however, fails to hold. Additional exercises lend support to Glaeser et al.'s (2004) view that human capital is a more fundamental channel of influence of precolonial conditions on modern development than is quality of institutions. (JEL J11, J24, N10, N30, O15, O43, R11)

The Political Economy of Trust

2019 ◽  
pp. 627-648
Author(s):  
Christian Bjørnskov
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
Quality Of Institutions

This chapter provides a selective survey of the literature on social trust in public choice and political economy. It outlines the empirical evidence and discusses theoretical channels through which social trust can affect the quality of institutions and policies, and the conditions under which such mechanisms are likely to work. It also addresses the discussion of reverse causality, that is, whether good institutions or policies actively create trust. It then discusses whether trust can be created or destroyed by activist government policy or accidental institutional changes. Its main focus is on the set of theories and evidence of the association between social trust and institutions of governance.

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