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This paper considers an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labour-force, the market for skill-complementary...
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the process of income transfers between and within households in Kenya and between … geographically separated units of the extended family - presents an econometrics study of the remittance function and income …
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The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...
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The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
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this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We … investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for local area income with time-series variation in global oil prices … an increase in income on health expenditures. Our central estimate is an income elasticity of 0.7, with an elasticity of …
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second stage suggest that every one percent increase in trade (relative to GDP) raises income per capita by roughly 1/3 of a …
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of (1) rural migration, (2) women's age at marriage, (3) children mortality, and (4) educational level - constitutes part …
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