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Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Bio-ecological diversity vs. socio-economic diversity : a comparison of existing measures

Maignan, Carole; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Pinelli, Dino - 2003

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...

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Economic growth, innovation, cultural diversity : what are we all talking about? ; a critical survey of the state-of-the-art

Maignan, Carole (ed.); Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (ed.); … - 2003

This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural … Environments, financed by the European Commission FP5 Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007 …

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