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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar crosscountry data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...
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This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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We explain a puzzle from two recent meta-analyses that cover 25 countries and claim to show that inputs systematically move from higher-value to lower-value activities despite strong aggregate labor productivity growth (ALP). These papers use variants of the Baily, Hulten and Campbell (1992)...
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It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...
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This paper employs a pair-wise approach to examine regional integration in the US gasoline market. Using gasoline price …
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identification strategy to estimate the effect of the price of gasoline on consumer demand for fuel economy. We control for … unobserved vehicle and consumer characteristics by using within model-year changes in the price of gasoline and vehicle sales. We … due to the increase in the price of gasoline. On the other hand, an increase in the gasoline tax would only modestly …
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We examine the competitive effects of the vertical integration of gasoline refineries and retailers in the U …. Vertical foreclosure is found to increase the wholesale price of refined gasoline by 0.2 to 0.6 cents per gallon. …
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examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …
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Iran's constitution emphasizes social justice and obliges government to provide a job for every citizen. But in fact …
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