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adjust their labor force in a manner broadly similar to firms elsewhere and that African labor markets are not uniquely …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among … international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long … domestic support for banning child labor within developing countries, and thus may contribute to the persistence of the child-labor …
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child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards …. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce the incidence of child labor in developing countries and thereby … show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing …
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This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
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fundamentally to competitive forces and economic dynamism. Implications of these findings for labor law policy and the future of …
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results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …
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So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …
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Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a...
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We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In the model, entrepreneurs have private and possibly errorridden observations of persistent and transitory shocks to profit. We demonstrate that the model's parameters can be...
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