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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
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This paper reviews three distinct strategies in recent economics for using the concept of social identity in the … social identity and personal identity together. The argument of the paper is that too narrow a scope for reflexivity in … and social identity together in connection with an individual behavior termed comparative value-objective evaluation. The …
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We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological … optimize the net benefits of diversity. The model takes into account increasing returns to scale and the effect of different … dimensions of diversity on the probability of emergence of a third option. We obtain analytical solutions describing the dynamic …
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willingness to pay for mixed land use. For example, apartment occupiers are willing to pay almost 25 percent more for diversity …
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This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering …, not necessarily business services firms, so diversity is negatively related to location decisions. Almost all firms either …
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An insider’s perspective on the bureaucratic structure of governmental institutions that shape economic policy, and the incentives and limitations of the individuals who head them.
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We examineways in which economists can communicate more effectively to policymakers and the broader public about offshoring and international trade.
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This paper concludes that there is no reason to base our policies on the idea that small businesses are more deserving of government favor than big companies.
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This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.
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What are the roles of the public and private sectors in fostering economic growth? Technological advance? Sectoral and regional development?
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