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Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be …
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Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
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This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or retard economic growth depending on their interactions with the formal sector and impacts on the...
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Bitcoin in particular and so-called cryptocurrencies in general have shaken up the financial world and seem to be … claiming an increasing size of the market share. These new virtual assets present investors with significant opportunities, but … indicate that, as of late, bitcoin has become increasingly interdependent with gold, and seems just as suitable to hedge …
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; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …
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market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
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simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect competition … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …
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-preserving system based on an open two-sided market in which buyers and sellers of peer review services would both be subject to a set … such an open market in which all elements are subject to peer review will over time lead to specialized reviewers in … market set-up would both professionalize the peer review process and make it completely transparent, an innovation long …
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