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What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality : household or community characteristics?
Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Western...
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Search and the city
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
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Search and the city
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P. A. - 2002
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National interference in local public good provision
Dur, Robert A. J.; Staal, Klaas - 2003
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The economics of bank regulation
Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Thakor, Anjan V. - 1996 - rev
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The economics of bank regulation
Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Thakor, Anjan V. - 1995
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The effects of usury ceilings on consumers welfare : evidence from the microcredit market in Colombia
Capera Romero, Laura - 2021
remote and isolated locations. In this paper, I exploit a change in the usury ceiling applied to micro-loans in Colombia to …
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
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Geographical distribution of unemployment : an analysis of provincial differences in Italy
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …
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Optimal government spending and unemployment
Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - 2008 - This version: February 29, 2008
We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
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