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, along with the rise of economic demography, accounting for the vintage structure of human capital similarly to physical …
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This article delivers the first comprehensive analysis of the new database, 'Mémoire des hommes', which gathers more than 1 Million French soldiers officially recognized as dead for France during WW1. Crossing this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by...
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Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to better anticipate the future challenges for cities. We distinguish between the main historical time periods of cities. Then, we discuss some regularities related to the internal...
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Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …
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French but also European economies are driven by micro, small and medium enterprises. However, evidence shows that micro-enterprises, representing 99 per cent of all newly created businesses, suffer from a lack of external resources, especially those created by socially excluded persons....
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inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …
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This paper questions the Lewis Path perspective of a "world without agriculture" which underpins the "structural transformation" paradigm of "modern growth." It shows that the Lewis Path is only one of four potential structural paths, and that half of the world's population is spiralling into a...
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. There is no evidence of adaptation within a … poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. Third, poverty scars: those who have been …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
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poverty and inequality in rural areas. While the poverty impacts of those programs are well documented in the literature less …
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