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This paper estimates the effect of Wal-Mart expansion on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates and endogeneity of the timing of entry, I find that Wal-Mart entry increases retail employment by 100 jobs...
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Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...
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, to choose how to allocate technological inputs. A technology choices model is developed, where scarce scientific … resources are alternatively allocated to basic science activities and to applied technology uses. We find that saddle path … objective function, that is, for a second-order Taylor series approximation of a felicity function regarding technology …
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We may distinguish between two concepts of technology: a theoretical level of technology (that is, a technology … possibilities frontier) and a level of technology in practice (that is, ready to use in production technology). Having these two … the implementation of technology to productive uses. There is a trade-off between the two technology variables and we …
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concentrate exclusively on DSL. Rather, its impact should be technology-neutral. …
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A simple economic activity location rule is considered. Under this rule, one regards that location decisions depend on the presence or the absence of agglomeration economies. Considering a three-location economy, the system that is built leads, under certain conditions, to a saddle-path...
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of the Combrain will be to identify,plan&derive implementation methods for Basic Needs;Domestic Investment,Savings,Technology …
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What are the prospects of B2B electronic commerce when production is carried out by a number of small firms specialized in single production phases? Prato, Italy, is home to thousands of textile firms as well as the locus of an early and innovative experience of a local Internet in the...
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El estudio de las preferencias es uno de los temas menos tratados por la econometría aplicada. En el presente artículo se pretende realizar una aproximación translogarítimica de las preferencias por medio de la construcción de un Índice de Satisfacción de los Hogares (ISH) con base al...
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The cyclical behavior of hours worked, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the representative agent with standard preferences. The residual in the intra-temporal first-order condition for commodity consumption and leisure is often viewed as a failure of labor-market...
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