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Labor market policies in an equilibrium matching model with heterogeneous agents and on-the-job search
Stavrunova, Olena - 2007
endogenous variables of interest to a policy-maker, including unemployment rates, durations and wages of low- and high …, subsidies for employing or hiring high- and low-skilled workers and increase in unemployment income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466063
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Essays on Tax Evasion and Government Spending in Developing Countries
Embaye, Abel Berhe - 2007
The dissertation aims at broadening our understanding of tax evasion and government spending in developing countries. It comprises three essays. The first essay deals with estimation of tax evasion in a cross-section of developing countries by estimating their underground economies using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463379
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MODEL OF CHOICES, INSTITUTIONS AND DIRECT DEMOCRACY QUASI-ECONOMIC FACTORS OF THE INFLUENCE OF UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
BAICU, Corneliu Sorin; HAPENCIUC, Cristian Valentin - 2016
Research in recent decades has shown that an analysis of underground economy from the limiting perspective of economic factors of influence is insufficient. Through an integrative approach it is opened the way to a multidisciplinary and multi causal understanding of all factors (economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529232
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Tuberculosis transmission patterns in a high-incidence area: A spatial analysis
Munch Z.; Van Lill S.W.P.; Booysen C.N.; Zietsman H.L.; … - 2003
notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442250
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Sectoral Endogenous Growth by Education in a System Dynamics Model
Helfrich, Nicki Daniel - 2010
The effect of an increase of the education level of the population on innovation and economic growth is an important topic in current political discussions. This thesis quantifies the effect with an empirically grounded system dynamics model distinguishing 30 economic sectors in Germany....
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Process spillovers and growth
Luckraz, Shravan - 2008
This paper develops an R&D based endogenous growth model in which the firm’s free-riding behavior, prompted by an incomplete technological protection at the industry level, can drive economic growth. Unlike existing endogenous growth models, it shows how free-riding behavior and process...
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Leadership and institutional factors in endogenous regional economic development
Stimson, R. J.; Stough, R; Salazar, M. - 2005
as quasi-independent variables are mediated by the interaction between leadership, institutions, and entrepreneurship as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448363
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Human Capital and Growth Cycles
Kaas, Leo; Zink, Stefan - 2007
This paper studies the dynamic interaction between human capital accumulation and economic growth. Capital market imperfections and an indivisibility in human capital investment prevent poor agents from accumulating skills, the acquisition of which positively affects technological progress. More...
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Money and Growth in a Production Economy with Multiple Assets
Kaas, Leo; Weinrich, Gerd - 2003
We consider a Diamond-type model of endogenous growth in which there are three assets: fiat money, government bonds, and equity. Because of productivity shocks, the equity return is uncertain, and risk-averse investors require a positive equity premium. Typically, there exist two steady states,...
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Credit And Growth Under Limited Commitment
Azariadis, Costas; Kaas, Leo - 2008
We consider a linear growth model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks in which producers cannot commit to repay their loans. Borrowing constraints are determined endogenously by the borrowers’ incentives to repay, assuming that defaulters lose a share of output and are excluded from future...
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