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The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea
Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - 2009
This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...
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Cover and Contents Pages
2009
Includes cover page, journal info, contents page, and editorial information
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The Economic Value of Education in Agricultural Production: A Switching Regression Analysis of Selected East Asian Countries
Huang, Fung-Mey; Luh, Yir-Hueih - 2009
The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early … consequently obscure the true contribution of education in agricultural production. This study presents a more efficient version to … testing the hypothesis that education plays a key role in agricultural development using a switching regression model. Because …
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THE IMPACT OF INCREASED SCHOOL ENROLLMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TANZANIA
Seebens, Holger; Wobst, Peter - 2003
formation bears consequences on an economy wide level, since education contributes to labor productivity. We examine the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443032
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Analyzing Growth and Welfare Effects of Public Policies in Models of Endogenous Growth with Human Capital: Evidence from South Africa
Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba - 2008
Since the abolition of its Apartheid regime in 1994, South Africa has launched a massive program of education, which … of public spending on education is 1.3 times the average of industrialized countries (5.4%) and almost twice that of … shift in the allocation of government expenditures between public spending on education andtransfers as well as those of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443249
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Anatomy of Stigmatized Behavior: Peer Influence and Relative Concern
Chen, Xi - 2011
This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444329
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The contribution of female non-farm income to poverty reduction
Seebens, Holger - 2009
There is a widely held view that off-farm income in developing countries tends to reduce poverty, leading to the conclusion that policies should focus on the further diversification of income options of rural households. However, much off-farm employment might be initiated rather as a survival...
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Human Capital, Population Growth and Economic Development: Beyond Correlations
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 1987
Empirical evidence on three assertions commonly-made by populationpolicy advocates about the relationships among population growth, humancapital formation and economic development is discussed and evaluated inthe light of economic-biological models of household behavior and of itsrelevance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445167
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How Effective is the Invisible Hand? Agricultural and Food Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
Hockmann, Heinrich; Brosig, Stephan; Popp, Jozsef; … - 2005
Since the seminal work of Adam Smith, markets have been considered an efficienttool for co-ordinating the behaviour of economic agents. The basic characteristicof a market economy is that the complex system of interaction amongindividuals is not centrally coordinated. Under the assumption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445186
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KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND INNOVATIONS AS FACTORS OF AGRARIAN COMPETITIVENESS
Mihailovic, Branko; Hamovic, Vladana; Parausic, Vesna - 2009
improved and supported by adequate research and application of gained results. Experience acquired in research and education … technologies. But, in spite of great number of research workers and successful education system inherited from the communist period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445914