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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005

If bigger objects go into a jar, then there will be space to fill it with smaller objects in sequence. If the order of the objects are reversed, then it ends in filling it at the starting point. Happiness in life is similar to this. Fill high priority needs in the life, and smaller needs can be...

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Candidate Quality

Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2004

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Antràs, Pol - 2005

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

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International Knowledge Flows : Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set

Kim, Jinyoung - 2006

We describe the construction of a panel data set from the U.S. patent data that contains measures of inventors' life-cycle R&D productivity--patents and patent citations. We match the data set to information on the U.S. pharmaceutical and semiconductor firms for whom they work. In this paper we...

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International Health Economics

Egan, Mark - 2013

medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide. Because world returns drive innovation and innovation is central to … countries. This paper analyzes the unique positive and normative implications of these innovation-induced linkages across … countries when governments centrally price health care. Providing world returns to medical innovation under such central pricing …

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