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This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to secularization thesis, the importance of beliefs and religious activities should weaken as education, scientific knowledge and economic welfare increases. That hypothesis has been...
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In this paper we empirically analyse the linkages among growth, investment and reforms in the South East Asian …
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development across most of human history induced growth theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single … between these distinct regimes. Unified growth theory reveals the underlying micro foundations that are consistent with the … growth process over the entire history of the human species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its …
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theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single unified framework the epoch of Malthusian stagnation, the … modern era of sustained economic growth, and the recent transition between these distinct regimes. Unified growth theory … species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its predictions and its policy implications for the growth …
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production model, which forms the foundation for Solow's growth theory and research into productivity growth factors, such as …
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Die Untersuchung analysiert, in welchem Umfang und auf welchen Wegen der Wissens- und Humankapitaltransfer durch die Otto-von-Guericke- Universität Magdeburg und die Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) in die Wirtschaft Sachsen-Anhalts stattfindet. Ausgehend von der wirtschaftlichen Ausgangslage...
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the intergenerational transmission mechanisms within a theoretical framework which supposes a heterogeneous family structure. For that, we propose a modified version of the model of Becker and Tomes (1986) by supposing that they exist two groups of...
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This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992- 2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...
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of public goods and services, including higher education. Despite theoretical insights from traditional trade theory that … worker heterogeneity, and that mobility provides a form of insurance for investment in risky human capital. Mobility also … constrains the ability of competitive governments to engage in redistributive financing of human capital investment, and recent …
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investment, such as plant, equipment, etc. Second, they decide what form of pricing capital to invest in – human, systems or …
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