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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, J.; Liu, Xingfei - HAL - 2012
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399199
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The Effects of Financial Development on Trade Performance and the Role of Institutions
KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf - HAL - 2012
This paper aims to address the empirical question of whether a country's level of manufacturing trade is affected by its financial sector development and to investigate the role of institutions in this relationship. Countries endowed with better-developed financial systems tend to specialize in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010587831
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A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - HAL - 2007
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. We also analyze the determinants of 3 counterfactual experiments (a college attendance subsidy, a high school graduation subsidy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792110
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Regional analysis on subjective welfare. Romanians' major concerns on developing regions
Butiu, Calina Ana - HAL - 2007
Through the new developing regions created in Romania must bring into account the compensation of the population needs and the differentiated territorial expectations. According to Public Opinion Barometer (Oct. 2004), diseases, firstly, prices and the children's future, are the main concerns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899258
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El Estado y las estrategias nacionales de desarrollo en Brasil. Evolución y trayectorias recientes
Cabria, Juan Vicente Bachiller - HAL - 2012
One of the most significant characteristics of capitalism in Brazil is the powerful role played by the government. Economic development has been closely linked to the creation of a series of state agencies and institutions designed to guide the process. In fact, the construction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820441
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Comparative Advantage and Uncertainty Bearing
Méra, Xavier - HAL - 2013
The law of association as espoused by David Ricardo and generalized by Ludwig von Mises cannot directly convey what is at stake in exchanges involving specialization in uncertainty bearing. In this article we explain why the entrepreneurial function as conceptualized by Frank Knight and Mises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674276
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Research report on the evaluation on Malaysian wood products to Europe- A comparative advantage perspective, in regards of recent evalutions in European forest sector
Z, Noor Aini; Jean-Marc, Roda; Ahmad Fauzi P. - HAL - 2008
As the growing trade in timber and wood products increasing, it has gained more attention from the main supplier in increasing the export competitiveness of timber and related products. Therefore, countries with large forest resources have an advantage in maximizing the resources in fulfilling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793967
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Trade in services : How does it work ?
Rabaud, Isabelle - HAL - 2006
While services represent nearly 70 % of value added in all OECD countries, only a fifth of trade in goods and services is due to cross-border supply of services. Then internationalisation of services occurs by commercial presence of firms in host countries, its impact on white collar employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794743
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Strategic Interactions in Environmental Regulation Enforcement: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Renard, Mary-Françoise; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2012
towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651572
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Determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam: A comparative study
Pham, Thi-Hong-Hanh - HAL - 2012
Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the … determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651580