Similar Search Results

Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing

Boca, Daniela Del; Vuri, Daniela - EconWPA - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125711

DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND DIFFERENTIAL PRODUCTION STRUCTURE IN A HARRIS-TODARO ECONOMY

Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005

This paper incorporates informal sector and efficiency wage relation in a Harris-Todaro econmy under differential production structure. The simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage relation. Two different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408272

"Basic Principles of Sustainable Development"

Harris, Jonathan M. - EconWPA - 2001

This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555984

IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN A MOBILE CAPITAL MODEL

Bandopadhyay, Titas - EconWPA - 2005

This paper incorporates informal sector and efficiency wage relation in a mobile capital H-T(1970) model. The simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage relation. Two different versions have been considered in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556721

ON-THE-JOB SEARCH, URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES-A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

Bandopadhyay, Titas - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Fields (1989) proposition1 in a multi sector general equilibrium model with perfect and imperfect capital mobility2. The effects of different fiscal policies on the equilibrium rate of urban unemployment are also examined here3. The main findings are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556734

Terrorism Prevention: A General Model

Dietrich, Franz - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper, I present and discuss a method for modelling an important trade-off faced by terrorism prevention policies: the trade-off between, on the one hand, trying to reduce people's inclination towards terrorism, and, on the other hand, trying to protect society against existing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118920

Economically Active Children and Home-care Children: How Much They Differ

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005

Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125745

Child Poverty in Vietnam: Using Adult Equivalence Scales to Estimate Income-Poverty for Different Age Groups

White, Howard - EconWPA - 2005

Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062441

Comparative Perspectives on Child poverty: a review of poverty measures

White, Howard; Masters, Andrew; Leavy, Jennifer - EconWPA - 2005

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407716

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - EconWPA - 2005

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556850