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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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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...

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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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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...

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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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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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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor) - 2008

At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...

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