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Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

evidences indicating its dynamic character and its instrumental role in ameliorating unemployment and propelling the developing … into the diverse aspects of the ‘multidimensional’ informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labour …

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Le Rapport Industrie - Agriculture Et Le Developpement Economique

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

The structure of a national economy is generally correlated with the stage of economic development. In economic history, it was demonstrated a trend from a first stage when agriculture predominated to last stage when the sector of services is the largest. In this context, the complex...

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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital

Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...

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Competitiveness and institutional change in Hungary

Bartha, Zoltán - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

institutional factors. It is not surprising therefore that the alteration of formal institutions (e.g. laws, measures, policies etc ….) is a hot topic nowadays. But it is important to note that the efficiency of formal institutions is based on informal ones …

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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2013

We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...

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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with two Elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2005

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

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Principal Constituents Decomposition of Economic Development—A Domestic Level Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Countries

Deng, Binbin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper tries to answer the question of what should be the main focuses to improve the poverty situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, through a liberal perspective, by decomposing the economic development in the region into several principal constituents on the domestic level. Emphasis is made on...

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Can Integrity Replace Institutions? Theory and Evidence

Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - CESifo - 2009

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show … that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of … a transactions-based economy with contracts preceding the transactions, and show that any one of (1) institutions, (2 …

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Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2005

instruments: the literacy rate at the end of the XIXth century, and the political institutions in place over the past several … and with available measures of institutions in a cross-country setting. …

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