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In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to controlfor individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …
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Este artículo ofrece una evaluación de la contribución al PIB de la infraestructura. A partir de un conjunto de datos de infraestructura que abarca 88 países durante los años 1960-2000, y utilizando un enfoque de panel de series de tiempo, el trabajo estima una función de producción...
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This paper examines the double dividend hypothesis in the presence of labour income uncertainty. Empirical evidence … shows that uncertainty over labour income is particularly significant in developing, while not negligible in developed … risk while the balanced budget decrease in labour income tax increases income risk. We find that the total welfare effect …
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Microeconomic flexibility, by facilitating the process of creative-destruction, is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies. The main reason for why this process is not infinitely fast is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, others institutional. Chief...
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This dissertation contributes to the theoretical understanding of the determinants and consequences of productive government activity for the economic performance of a country’s economy. Chapter 2 gives a comprehensive survey of the recent theoretical literature on the link between productive...
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Trade liberalization in Latin America has substantially altered business opportunities andeconomic development in the region. As barriers to competing inputs have come down andforeign investment in the region has gone up, small, domestic firms have struggled to stayafloat. Many small businesses...
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This study investigates the interaction between corruption and foreign direct investment inflows in 23 emerging market economies during the period 2002-2014 by employing Westerlund-Durbin-Hausman (2008) cointegration test. We found that control of corruption and rule of law had no statistically...
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real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth … rate of income was 8.4 per cent, while net assets increased by only 3 per cent. An average deficit of R11.02 million …
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or income benefits contemplated, or a credit agreement with a bank or other source of funds wherein the utility company …
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example, we show which lenders affect which regions and which income or mortgage product classes. These results also highlight … or new home buyer. Results indicate that home values as a proportion of median family income in Building America … communities are closely aligned with the national average of home value as a proportion of median income. Other key findings …
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