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Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
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associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
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We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
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institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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In a simple theoretical framework, the quality of institutions affects individual’s investment decisions, and hence … income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … redistributive taxation to maintain political support. The quality of institutions and the extent of redistribution depend on the …
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