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Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Menon, Nidhiya; Rodgers, … - 2020

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …

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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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Regional differences in intersectoral linkages and diverse patterns of structural transformation

Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022

censuses for Ghana, we test and find support for four predictions related to this hypothesis: (1) a recent, positive mining … the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors … other sectors with respect to the change in employment in mining closely follows the regional patterns of intersectoral …

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Economies of scale in the Tunisian industries

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2011

To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...

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Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies : micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013

Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...

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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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