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Using Your Ties to Get a Worse Job? The Differential Effects of Social Networks on Quality of Employment in Colombia

Deguilhem, Thibaud - 2018

This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...

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Crecimiento Económico de Largo Plazo en Antioquia, Colombia : Estimación del PIB, 1800-1913 (Long Term Economic Growth in Antioquia, Colombia: GDP Estimates, 1800-1913)

Mejia, Javier - 2012

than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …

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Fiscal Policy Institutions and Economic Transition in North Africa

Baldi, Guido - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Sound public finances are crucial for ensuring a successful transformation of transition countries to democratic market economies. The transition countries in North Africa are an important example for this. These countries experienced increasing budget deficits in 2011 and 2012. Public finances...

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The constitution of economic growth: Testing the prosperity effects of a Madisonian model on a panel of countries 1980‐2000

Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Political scientists and economists increasingly agree that institutions may influence economic growth, but there is little general agreement on what institutions tend to produce what consequences. We apply public choice insights for a theoretical analysis that may be termed “Madisonian”:...

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The constitutional dilemma of European integration

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

The paper analyzes European integration from a constitutional economics perspective. It is argued that the use of the Prisoners' Dilemma as a description of the advantages of European integration is fallacious. If the situation is a PD, the solution is impossible; if it is not, it is unnecessary.

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Decomposing violence: terrorist murder in the twentieth century in the U.S.

Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Abstract: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...

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Incidencia fiscal de los incentivos tributarios

Ortega, Juan Ricardo; Piraquive, Gabriel Armando; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Tax incentives have traditionally been used as a tool by public policy makers in order to correct or reduce market failures. However, there is a widespread debate, in the international literature, about whether they can or not reaching this goal. In this paper, we propose a methodology to assess...

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La Financiación del Déficit del Gobierno Central: Sus Costos Económicos y la Independencia Del Banco Central en Colombia desde 1991. 

Parada, Jairo; Albor, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

reorientation of public debt financing policy in Colombia since the Constitution of 1991 was implemented, developing a theoretical …

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The logic of violence in the civil war: the economics perspective

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...

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The developmental contribution of the Offset Agreements: the case of Colombia

LARRÚ, JOSÉ MARÍA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Colombia is a middle-income country but with a human development constantly threatened by insecurity. This paper … EADS-CASA in Colombia. Compare Malaysia, the Colombian case exemplifies how offset might be an instrument of development …, these agreements can be a good example. The offset agreements executed in Colombia are assessed with high marks in relevance …

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