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Structural Transformation and Spillovers from Industrial Areas
Blakeslee, David S. - 2018
Like many developing countries, India features a variety of land-use restrictions that make it difficult to establish industrial firms on agricultural lands. Such policies have received some of the blame for the slow pace of industrialization, and there is widespread agreement on the need for...
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How Destructive is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement
Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
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The Important Role of Equivalence Scales : Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia
Abanokova, Kseniya - 2020
equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. Our analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to household demographic …
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Stuck between Surplus and Shortage : Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...
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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2006
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a longrun stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction
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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
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Marketmaking Middlemen
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2016
other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical base of trade models with heterogeneous firms. Our model is …
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Immigration and Structural Change : Evidence from Post-War Germany
Braun, Sebastian - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
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