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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Paul, Saumik - 2020
-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …
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Diversity and Public Goods : A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119010
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Migration and Stratification
Jasso, Guillermina - 2011
Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121336
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Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
Borjas, George J. - 2020
New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This paper merges information on the number of tests and the number of infections at the New York City zip code level with demographic and socioeconomic information from the decennial census and the American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837327
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Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2006
Although past research has found strong social class effects on the decision to undertake higher education in the UK, there is only sparse empirical work investigating social class influences on the choice of degree subject at the undergraduate level. Using Universities' Statistical Record data...
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Caste, Courts and Business
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022
We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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Labor Reallocation and Demographics
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
. In fact, evidence suggest that changes in the demand for labor were accommodated mostly through demographic flows, with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930949
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Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte D'Ivoire
Gbakou, Monnet - 2011
This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d …), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups of commodities by exploiting a relationship between unit values and …
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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Jahn, Elke J. - 2010
general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand …
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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
Anand, Rahul - 2010
-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …
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