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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004

Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on...

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Financial crisis, economic recovery and banking development in former Soviet Union economies

Huang, Haizhou; Marin, Dalia; Xu, Chenggang - 2003

This paper explains both the onset of the financial crisis in 1998 and the striking economic recovery afterwards in Russia and other Former Soviet Union (FSU) economies. Before the crisis banks do not lend to the real sector of the economy and firms use non-bank finance, including trade credits...

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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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Economic Growth and Development : A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach

Das, Sibabrata; Mourmouras, Alex; Rangazas, Peter - 2018 - 2nd ed. 2018

This textbook is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined....

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Revisiting the Informal Sector : A General Equilibrium Approach

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2010

Theoretical Foundations: A General Equilibrium Approach -- The Harris-Todaro Migration Model and Introduction of the Informal Sector -- Informal Sector and Open Unemployment -- Foreign Capital Inflow, Informal Sector and Welfare -- How and How Far to Liberalise a Developing Economy -- Economic...

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Maquiladoras and informality : a mixed blessing

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011

Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features … the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …

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Inward looking policies, finite change and employment : the capital reallocation effect

Marjit, Sugata; Gupta, Kausik - 2020

It is well recognized that there emerged a trend of inward looking trade policies even before COVID pandemic crippled the world. These were reflected in both BREXIT and US-China trade conflict. As countries become inward oriented, usually local prices start rising. With this backdrop this paper...

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Microentrepreneurship in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...

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Elections, fiscal policy and growth : revisiting the mechanism

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2002

This short paper reconsiders the popular result that the lower the probability of getting reelected, the stronger the incumbent politicians incentive to follow short-sighted, inefficient policies. The set-up is a general equilibrium model of endogenous growth and optimal fiscal policy, in which...

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Demographic change and regional labour markets : the case of Eastern Germany

Henschel, Beate (contributor); Pohl, Carsten (contributor); … - 2008

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