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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but also the minimum wage has been used as anti-inflation policy in addition to its social role. This paper estimates...

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Western Institution Building:The War, Hayek’s Cosmos and the WTO

Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the shortcomings of Hayek’s spontaneous order, there is a positive side, perhaps even a positive feedback. Hayek left us with a “what if” question and returns us to that initial opening of Pandora’s Box, or perhaps the initial onset of neo-realism, neo-liberalism,...

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POLITICS AND INTERJURISDICTIONAL TRANSFERS: THE ROMANIAN CASE

Mutascu, Mihai Ioan; Dima, Bogdan - EconWPA - 2005

this paper represents a continuation of a previous paper where we demonstrated the “abnormal” behavior that local authority from Romania is manifesting regarding the subventions received from the central budget. In accord with public choice theory, exist an “affinity” of a social group -...

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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTERACTION:A POLICY ORIENTED STUDY OF THE AFRICAN UNION

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

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Location Dynamics and Knowledge Agglomeration

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

A simple economic activity location rule is considered. Under this rule, one regards that location decisions depend on the presence or the absence of agglomeration economies. Considering a three-location economy, the system that is built leads, under certain conditions, to a saddle-path...

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CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE & PRODUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE (Technology)

Gürak, H. - EconWPA - 2005

of human mind. In other words, knowledge on production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge provides the premises … and gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but technology itself is the product of mental labor …

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ACCELERATE YOUR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – AN ECCENTRIC BICIRCUALR MODEL & SOLUTIONS.

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Technology with Domestic Human Potential (Technical Infrastructure) & Economic Development is represented by Exogenous Circle …, EVEN THOUGH FOREIGN TO START WITH) 02. DOMESTIC HUMAN POTENTIAL TO MAN THE DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGY - ENDOGENOUS CIRCLE. (LATEST … TECHNOLOGY MODERATED TO SUIT LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS). 03. SYNCHRONISE EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS CIRCLES & OPTIMISE THEIR DIMENSIONS …

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Future Potential of Hybrid and Diesel Powertrains in the U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Market

Greene, David L.; Duleep, K.G.; McManus, Walter - EconWPA - 2004

Diesel and hybrid technologies each have the potential to increase light-duty vehicle fuel economy by a third or more without loss of performance, yet these technologies have typically been excluded from technical assessments of fuel economy potential on the grounds that hybrids are too...

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Space, Growth and Technology: an Integrated Dynamic Approach

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...

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A Second-Order Approximation to Technology Choices

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

, to choose how to allocate technological inputs. A technology choices model is developed, where scarce scientific … resources are alternatively allocated to basic science activities and to applied technology uses. We find that saddle path … objective function, that is, for a second-order Taylor series approximation of a felicity function regarding technology …

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