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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …
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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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increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
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Spanish unemployment, focusing on demonstrating its long memory and generating macro-economic models with autoregressive … vectors in which the unemployment variable is presumed to be non-stationary and co-integrated. Its consideration in this … suppose, the same as Skalin and Teräsvirta (2002), a behaviour for unemployment which is locally non-stationary in a globally …
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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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