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Kapur, Kanika; Marquis, M. Susan; Buntin, Melinda J. … - 2004

Objective. To estimate the effect of changes in premiums for individual insurance on decisions to purchase individual insurance and how this price response varies among subgroups of the population.Data Source. Survey responses from the Current Population Survey...

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Transfers, Agglomeration and German Unification

Ross, Matthias - 2001

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of … increasing and afterwards decreasing transfers are necessary to avoid agglomeration. Due to these results east Germany's slowdown … of convergence may be a consequence of too less transfers and especially too less firm subsidies. Furthermore, if East …

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Rising longevity, education, savings, and growth

Zhang, H.; Zhang, J. S.; Lee, R. - 2003

This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of...

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The Market Value of Family Values

Chami, Ralph; Fullenkamp, Connel - 1997

is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. This paper analyzes how transfers among family members … affect the behavior of transfer recipients in the market and how market prices reflect the presence of non-market transfers …. Parental and spousal transfers are motivated both by altruism and by a desire to use the transfers to impart specific values or …

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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases : the role of education for development and international competition

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

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Regulation of the Electricity Industry in Bolivia: Its Impact on Access to the Poor, Prices and Quality

Bojanic, Antonio; Krakowski, Michael - 2003

This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of structural reforms in this country and the specific results that have to date been accomplished in the electricity industry. It is mostly interested in exploring whether the...

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Migration, Remittances, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Reflections on Some South Asian Developments

Ballard, Roger - 2005

This report presents a global account of the historical relationship between migration, industrialization and economic growth, and then goes on to present an empirical examination of the dynamics immigration from Mirpur (Pakistan) and Jullundur (India) to the UK. It closes by considering the...

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Soziale Sicherung und informeller Sektor : Stand der theoretischen Diskussion und kritische Analyse der Situation in den arabischen Ländern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kl...

Loewe, Markus - 2004

Verbreitete Armut ist nach wie vor eines der zentralen Probleme der arabischen Entwicklungsländer, das nicht nur auf begrenzte Erwerbsmöglichkeiten und geringe Einkommen zurückgeht. Große Teile der Bevölkerung verarmen auch deshalb immer wieder, weil sie keinen adäquaten Zugang zu...

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Off-Grid Electricity Access and its Impact on Micro-Enterprises: Evidence from Rural Uganda.

Muhoro, Peter N. - 2010

The history of development shows convincingly that no country has substantially reduced poverty without massively increasing the use of electricity. The development of micro-enterprises in rural areas of Uganda is linked with increased access and useof electricity services. In this study, I...

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Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction?

Paci, Pierella - 2007

In this paper we analyze whether the employment/productivity profile of growth as wellas its sectoral pattern matter for poverty reduction. We also identify some conditions of the labor market which are associated with employment intensive growth or specific sectoral growth.We find that, in the...

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