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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822686
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?
Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884381
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959583
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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
May, Nils G.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273186
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279256
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264784
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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ‘classics’, however (Fisher (1935),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233801
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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086589
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...
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