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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003
Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test … the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates … related to unemployment for South African adults as to be expected in richer countries. Reported well-being levels are shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125760
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Economia sintetica
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998
Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125628
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven; Fafchamps, Marcel - EconWPA - 2004
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062449
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Long-Run Economic Growth: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Kibritcioglu, Aykut; Dibooglu, Selahattin - EconWPA - 2001
Economic growth and development is a complicated process that falls into the domain of many disciplines in social sciences and humanities. It is natural then to study fundamental aspects of economic growth synthesizing research in relevant fields. In this short paper, we argue that this has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126120
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062447
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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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Lucas vs. Lucas: On Inequality and Growth
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Verdier, Genevieve - EconWPA - 2005
. Moreover, our calculations suggest that US inequality is above its optimal level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412681
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On the Welfare Gains of Growth and Welfare Costs of Inequality
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Verdier, Genevieve - EconWPA - 2005
inequality, both within and across countries. We find that the welfare costs of inequality are significantly larger than the …-capita consumption, the costs of within-country and cross-country inequality are equivalent to a permanent reduction in per … positive rate of 2.1%) in exchange for the elimination of all within-country inequality. The gains of economic growth are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561141