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African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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possible due to a less regulated institutional environment. -- Service sector ; Germany ; dual labor market ; low-skilled work …
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A … support for these predictions. -- immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
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proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii …
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Decarbonizing economies is an enormous task. Public debate often focuses on the job loss of workers in fossil industries. Why is job loss costly? Who is most affected? Can delaying transition reduce welfare costs? What other policy instruments may be available? We present a simple job search...
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' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany …
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manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between structural change and labor market dynamics in West Germany, during a …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...
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