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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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The economics and politics of women's rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - 2011

, which should benefit development. The political-economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that …

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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

Many scholars have argued that once basic needs have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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Development and sources of labor productivity in Chinese provinces

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources … adjustments have been used for the estimation of three functions. Regional breakdown shows severe disparity in the economy where …

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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … and export exposure. We find that the rise of the East in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing …

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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration

Konseiga, Adama - 2005

France. The subsequent empirical strategy consists in comparing the growth performance of an economy without migration to the … counterpart economy. The regional growth convergence analysis shows higher convergence rate once the brain circulation is … country (France) and failed when migration, as is the case for Burkina Faso, flows into Cote d?Ivoire the polar economy of the …

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...

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Economic growth and subjective well-being: reassessing the easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2008

The Easterlin paradox suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry

Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-dong; Heshmati, Almas - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...

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