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Kim, Yong-jin - 1999

increasing or maintaining the mobility of workers across industries. The paper shows that education, combined with international …

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COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2020

Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people's mobility. Yet, there is scant … evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized … mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility in response to rising COVID …

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Are African Households Heterogeneous Agents? : Stylized Facts on Patterns of Consumption, Employment, Income and Earnings for Macroeconomic Modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

This paper reviews the evidence on how households in Sub-Saharan Africa segment along consumption, income and earning dimensions relevant for quantitative macroeconomic policy models which incorporate heterogeneity. Key findings include the importance of home-grown food in the income and...

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Are African households heterogeneous agents? : stylized facts on patterns of consumption, employment, income and earnings for macroeconomic modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

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China’s labor market in the “new normal”

Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015

As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth slows,...

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Exports and Economic Development

Villanueva, Delano - 1993

A robust empirical determinant of long-term economic growth in many developing countries has been the expansion and diversification of the export sector. The latter, in turn, has been influenced by capital accumulation and economic growth. The growth model developed here explores this...

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Chile : a role model of export diversification policies?

Salinas, Gonzalo - 2021

Largely because of its vast copper reserves, Chile's exports are highly concentrated on this low complexity product and this is often cited as a major drawback of its economic policy framework. However, its exogenous copper abundance conceals the country's success in developing non-mineral and...

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Growing apart, losing trust? : the impact of inequality on social capital

Gould, Eric D.; Hijzen, Alexander - 2016

There is a widespread perception that trust and social capital have declined in United States as well as other advanced economies, while income inequality has tended to increase. While previous research has noted that measured trust declines as individuals become less similar to one another,...

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Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Countries where social and political institutions stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social cohesiveness tend to have more efficient governments, better governance systems, and faster growth. This paper provides cross-country evidence, based on a sample of developing and...

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Social Capital and Civil Society

Fukuyama, Francis - 2000

Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy....

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