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cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of … social insurance. We describe a model economy in which demographics, technology, and social security are linked together. We … study an economy with two locations (sectors), the farm (agricultural) and the city (industrial). The decision to migrate …
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The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
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This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …
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century. We propose an explanation for these facts which is based on a dynamic political economy model where redistribution is …
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correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper takes an in-depth look into the UAE economy as a model but also as a … diversify its economy. However, the drivers of economic growth in the UAE are vulnerable to external shocks outside of the … facilitate the involvement of the private sector in the economy …
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We examine how selected high school characteristics – including type of diploma – contribute to students' academic success in an American-type university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We find no robust evidence that US, UK, and UAE systems of high school diploma produce different...
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compiled on the English economy, accounting well for the growth experience of England encompassing the Industrial Revolution …
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under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial …
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We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
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and urban sectors but within the urban economy as well. Research on the trend has focused on (1) how market forces have …
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