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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015

I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national … contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …

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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The economics of human cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy : what can we learn from molecular genetics?

Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009

This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction effects. This literature...

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Are attitudes towards economic risk heritable? : analyses using the Australian twin study of gambling

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010

This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini, Dawes, Johannesson,...

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Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...

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Investigating the genetic architecture of non-cognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction

Demange, Perline A.; Malanchini, Margherita; Mallard, … - 2020

Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...

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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...

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Informational shocks and street-food safety: a field study in urban India

Daniele, Gianmarco; Mookerjee, Sulagna; Tommasi, Denni - 2020

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...

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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs

Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...

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