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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011
individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of … the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less the consumption of a certain group of goods: those for which …
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Population policies, fertility, women's human capital, and child quality
Schultz, T. Paul - 2007
consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider … independent of the reproductive preferences of parents or unobserved constraints that might influence family life cycle behaviors …
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143
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Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
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Institutions and Development : The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273741
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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