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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109425
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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The Economics of Hypergamy
Almås, Ingvild - 2019
framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … parental earnings rank, a predetermined measure of earnings capacity that solves the simultaneity problem of matching affecting … earnings outcomes, we show that hypergamy is an important feature of Norwegian mating patterns. A vignette experiment …
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J. - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
Borissov, Kirill - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union : An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2021
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2010
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
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Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms Towards Flexicurity : Evidence from OECD Countries
Görg, Holger - 2018
How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...
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