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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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agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … production. The ``organization'' of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population …
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agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … production. The "organization" of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125652
The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in … population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed …
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Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades. This impact study unravels the various factors behind these changes. Economic growth has been important, but so have major public sector interventions, notably reproductive...
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If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556717
A key area of focus in the economic reform process and the design of a favorable business environment is labor market … five years since the beginning of Economic reforms, the new Labor Law was passed in July 2003. This is not the only … weakness of the labor market reform; more importantly is that the new law did not actually bring any significant changes that …
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Some thoughtful questions and linear answers to the economic, social, and political consequencs that comes with restrictive regulating laws. 'Regulatory law is where Socialism meets Liberalism; or what might be called the highest form of Liberalism, the lowest form of Socialism.'
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If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will cooperation in one policy be strengthened at the expense of the other? We analyze this question in...
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