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Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - EconWPA - 2002

The entire discussion about Globalisation that is prevalent today is about PSEUDO globalisation. It is apparently about opening economies for free trade. The need of the hour is not mere opening of economies, but one of opening hearts and minds.... Globalisation anchors for its success on the...

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Application of Economic Concepts on Religious Behavior

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003

This survey gathers the current state of research activity on the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. The religious beliefs and activities are analyzed from the viewpoint of economic theory and behavior. The advanced statistical tools and theoretical formulations of economic...

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Evaluer une Economie : Une Pratique Plurivalente

Yasmine, GUESSOUM - EconWPA - 2004

Très souvent perçue en tant qu’instrument de jugement a posteriori, l’évaluation a entre autre été conçue comme méthode de formulation des politiques et de gestion des projets. A présent devenu étape incontournable, notamment dans le domaine de l’aide à la décision, cette...

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Implications of the Economics of Religion to the Empirical Economic Research

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003

economic welfare increases. That hypothesis has been previously proofed false, but it continues to affect people's attitudes …

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The Academic Review Process: How Can We Make it More Efficient?

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

Recently many editors try to reduce the turnaround times of academic journals. Shorter turnaround times, however, will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers, increasing significantly the workload of editors and referees, and the number of rejections prior to publication. I...

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Human Capital in Transitional Russia

Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002

graduate degrees. Returns to schooling are higher for women; but this gain is more than offset by the large gender wage gap …. The gender wage differential increased over the years especially for younger women and women without higher education … higher, especially for women, and the gender wage differential is now more than twice as large in Russia than in the U.S. …

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What's in a Name?

Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - EconWPA - 2004

, we also find evidence based on the differential impacts of gender and race on the blackness of a name and its popularity …

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The Economics of Child Labor: Comment

Swinnerton, Kenneth A.; Rogers, Carol Ann - EconWPA - 1999

In a recent paper, Kaushik Basu and Pham Hoang Van (BV, 1998) develop an important and very interesting model in which a fairly productive economy exhibits multiple equilibria, with children working in at least one. They identify two assumptions as essential to this result. The first - - which...

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Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings

Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2000

This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...

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Schooling and Parental Death

Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003

differential treatment based on the gender of the child or the deceased parent. …

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