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rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
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This article examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
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Economists have long speculated that individuals care about both their absolute income and their income relative to …
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Economists have long speculated that individuals care about both their absolute income and their income relative to …
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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
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income insecurity to the proliferation of informal enterprise through job insecurity in selected SSA countries. The study …, Kenya and the DRC. The analyses suggested that income insecurity exist in the form of significant seasonal variations in … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job …
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onwards), and income gains are likely to be concentrated at the top of the income distribution. The additional foreign … disparities and widening income inequality. Using the additional revenues of the Canal expansion in a targeted cash transfer …
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This article examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257287
This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …
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