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This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical frameworkwith a conflict of interest between the donor and the recipient government.Aid conditionality is modelled as a limited enforceable contract. We defineconditional aid policy to be self-enforcing if, at any point in time,...
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zunehmenden Interdependenzen, so dass die Entwicklungspolitik konzeptionell auf einem sicheren Fundament sozialstruktureller … Reziprozität aufgebaut werden kann. Zweitens fokussiert sie auf die gemeinsamen Interessen an Entwicklung und identifiziert auf … beitragen, die Anreizstrukturen in der Entwicklungspolitik und der Entwicklungspraxiszu reformieren – im Interesse der Armen und …
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During the 1980s and 1990s, the Netherlands experienced a strong increase in the labourforce participation of women. This study investigates the increase of participation over thesuccessive generations of women, and produces an educated guess for future participation.For this purpose, we...
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In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...
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This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...
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Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds importanteffects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent,infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paperfocuses on how the impact...
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The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academicsector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities,institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in allcountries around the...
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This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individualsmake optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity ofthe investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensionsof mortality...
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Die sich in mehr oder weniger regelmäßigen Abständen stellende Frage nachden Zukunftsperspektiven der Genossenschaften in Deutschland erfordert nahezuzwangsläufig die Auseinandersetzung mit zwei unterschiedlichen Facetten.So stellt sich zum einen die Frage nach den wirtschaftlichen, speziell...
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Entwicklung einer Gesellschaft. Ihr Erreichenist objektiv begründet und geht aus den Gesetzen, Prinzipien und Anforderungender …
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