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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076560
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The Ricardian Vice: Why Sala-i-Martin’s calculations of world income inequality are wrong
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The paper discusses recent world income inequality calculations by Sala- i-Martin. It shows that the two main problems … of income augmented by a constant shift parameter and not a distribution of income among world citizens. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134630
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THE TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION: AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AS WE KNOW IT
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only … one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are … adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it is” (the Halcyon days of the 1870-1913, and the record of the last two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118746
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Die ökonomischen Effekte der Hochschulausgaben des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt – Fiskalische, Humankapital- und Kapazitätseffekte der Hochschulen in Magdeburg (Teil 2)
Rosner, Ulf; Weimann, Joachim - EconWPA - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556230
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the intergenerational transmission of human capital: the case of heterogenous families
HLAIMI, Boubaker - EconWPA - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076521
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Human Capital in Transitional Russia
Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076535
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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration
Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyzes some of the implications of North American labor market integration for fiscal policy. The economies of Canada and the US are both characterized by highly integrated internal markets for goods and services as well as for labor and capital, and subnational governments in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076579
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The Three Capitals of Pricing – Human, Systems and Social Capital
Ritson, Mark; Zbaracki, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076823
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The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d<92>Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d'Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076938
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005
The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and defined replacement ratio UI systems are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125042