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Bilateral Uncertainty in a Model of Job-Market Screening with Intermediaries

Schweinzer, Paul - EconWPA - 2001

We look at a job-market model of bilateral uncertainty. Workers are uncertain about what job descriptions advertised by firms really mean and firms are uncertain about the qualifications of workers before they are interviewed. Both types of uncertainty can be resolved but both processes are...

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

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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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004

institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062522

CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Celaya, Diana - EconWPA - 2004

institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407867

Empresarialidad e instituciones: dos nuevas perspectivas del analisis regional contemporáneo

Valentina, Viego - EconWPA - 2005

This paper offers a review of the main progress made in entrepreneurship analysis and institutional economics, discussing its possible integration to general theory of economic development, considering the increasing importance that these topics have gained in contemporary approaches of...

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Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - EconWPA - 2004

Differences in regional unemployment rates are often used to describe regional economic inequality. This paper asks … whether changes in regional unemployment differences in West Germany are persistent over time. Only if such changes are … dispersion of unemployment rates. Our analysis follows a time-series approach to economic convergence and we test whether …

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