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Oil rents, governance quality, and the allocation of talents in developing countries

Ebeke, Christian; Omgba, Luc Désiré - HAL - 2011

Evidence shows that the allocation of talented people is not neutral for growth. Thus, a country with a large population of law concentrators tends to develop rent-seeking activities that reduce growth. A country with a large population of engineers tends to foster innovation and strengthen...

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Endogenous persistent inequality

Fall, Falilou - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited humain capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility...

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Determinants of self-employment : the case in Vietnam

Do, Thi Quynh Trang; Duchêne, Gérard - HAL - 2007

The determinants of self-employment are widely studied in the economic literature in recent twenty years. However, in the case of Vietnam where self-employed population takes an important proportion in workforce, it remains an under researched area. By using the data from the Vietnam Household...

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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation

Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...

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The dynamics of income inequality in a growth model with human capital and occupational choice

Borissov, Kirill; Lambrecht, Stéphane - HAL - 2012

offspring's human capital accumulation on the basis of their altruistic motive, their own income and the equilibrium ratio … the split of the population in two classes. We study the transitional dynamics of human capital accumulation and of income … of income inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and income in-equality among the skilled workers. The former …

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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission

Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012

We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...

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Preferences for redistribution : an empirical analysis

Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2011

People's preferences for state intervention in social policies vary. A cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data is conducted here to highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand for redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually...

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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850

Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009

The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...

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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis

Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008

What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...

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Trends in social mobility in Romania since the Middle of the Twentieth Century. Economical change as an explicative factor of the social mobility.

Ionas, Liliana - HAL - 2008

One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the mid-twenty century is the occupational change due to the modifications produced in the economic sectors. The pattern of upward social mobility can change because the parents of...

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