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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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Does economic theory help in forecasting key macroeconomic variables? This article aims to provide some insight into … the question by drawing lessons from the literature. The definition of "economic theory" includes a broad range of … examples of theory-based forecasting that have not proven useful, such as theory-driven variable selection and some popular …
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The globalization of capital and product markets has many implications for economic welfare. Countries can specialize in the production of goods for which they have comparative advantages, and capital is allocated more efficiently. However, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the...
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