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Is the Structure of Happiness Equations the Same in Poor and Rich Countries? The Case of South Africa.

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show that the relationships between subjective well-being and socioeconomic variables have a similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in...

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Mortality and early growth in England, France, and Sweden

Lagerloef, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting …

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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...

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On the Distribution of City Sizes

Cordoba, Juan Carlos - EconWPA - 2003

The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...

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Trade Liberalization in Agriculture in Developed Nations and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Dwibedi, Jayanta Kumar - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is an attempt to analyze the consequence of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed countries on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three- sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Adult labour and child labour are...

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Trading Population for Productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004

determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across … asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non- industrial nations while in the industrial … an investment in the quality of the population, expediting the demographic transition, stimulating technological progress …

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Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Results from a 2x2x2x2 Overlapping Generations Model with Unequal Population Growth Rates

Sayan, Serdar - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and … investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of … identical in every respect except, for their population growth rates initially. The effects of differential speed of population …

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CHILD LABOUR AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Gupta, Manash Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005

The paper analyzes the implications of trade liberalization on the incidence of child labour in a two-sector general equilibrium framework. The supply function of child labour has been derived from the utility maximizing behaviour of the working families. The paper finds that the effect of trade...

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Long-Term Labour Force Projections for the 25 EU Member States:A set of data for assessing the economic impact of ageing

Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005

assessment of the potential economic and fiscal impact of an ageing population. The projections presented in this paper show the … the outcome of projected declining trends for the working-age population and a shift in the age structure of the … population towards older, less participating groups - a consequence of the baby-boom generation approaching retirement and the …

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