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level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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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 in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
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reliable than those at the individual level. Second, development is a qualitative process involving take-off points and … stages and dimensions of the development process. …
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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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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
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economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
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Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
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The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …
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other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural …
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