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inequality in total consumption expenditure by different sources (food, education, health, durable goods and other items … equal during the past two decades, represent a declining share of total consumption. In contrast, expenditures on education … expenditure on food items, inequality contributions of expenditures on all other heads including education, health, durable goods …
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This paper studies an effect of a horizontal merger where a product consolidation by the merged firm may alter the substitutability in the industry. We show that as the number of firms in the industry increases, this type of merger becomes profitable for merging firms, while unprofitable for...
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This paper studies the stability of mergers between firms in a Cournot market. Unlike most existing works, we consider a demand structure where the substitutability between firms is asymmetric. We specifically focus on the stability of the grand coalition by analyzing the core allocation. The...
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This paper studies an effect of a horizontal merger where a product consolidation by the merged firm may alter the substitutability in the industry. We show that as the number of firms in the industry increases, this type of merger becomes profitable for merging firms, while unprofitable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563114
The efficiency of English higher education institutions is evaluated using a traditional ‘black-box' data envelopment …
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for the level of education allows for superior estimation of group-specific Phillips curves. In this paper we consider … economies. We find that the education-adjusted unemployment gap does little to help estimate the inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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We develop a model in which technical progress, human capital and population interact endogenously to examine the impact of population growth on economic development. We find that population growth can be positively or negatively correlated with the growth rate of income per-capita. The outcome...
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This empirical note complements the qualitative and theoretical research on positive household stigma towards child labor. We use data from Guatemala and two instruments for measuring stigma: a child's indigenous background and household head's childhood work experience. We then adopt binomial...
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education in schools and the other is accumulated through working experiences in production activities. Introducing such a …-run growth is not necessarily associated with a higher level of education attainment. …
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We develop a model in which technical progress, human capital and population interact endogenously to examine the impact of population growth on economic development. We find that population growth can be positively or negatively correlated with the growth rate of income per-capita. The outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629836