A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article - in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies of traditional microeconomic approaches and of...
Given that a decade has passed since the passage of the ADA and five years since the enactment of the British Disability Discrimination Act, it seems a fitting time at which to examine the civil rights employment impasse against the larger political economy backdrop. Since the authors expertise lies with...
This paper presents and then tests a political economy model to analyze the observed positive relationship between income inequality and inflation. The model's key features are unequal access to both inflation-hedging opportunities and the political process. The model predicts that inequality and 'elite bias' in the political system interact to...
The structure and regulation of a country's financial markets and institutions are the focus of considerable policy attention for a number of economic and political reasons. Parts of the financial sector are effectively regulated as a means to provide subsidized credit or services to targeted groups including the government itself...
According to Al-Ahram newspaper (December 4, 2005), the head of the World Bank's delegation to Cairo said that the Egyptian economy is predicted to grow by 7%-8% in the upcoming three years. The currently ongoing economic and political reforms in Egy According to Al-Ahram newspaper (December...
This paper blends the political economy and the International Business FDI Foreign Direct Investment literature and examines the relationship between FDI and democracy. Even though the usual conjecture that civil and political repression boosts FDI in developing countries has been widely refuted in empirical studies, support of this view is...
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