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Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and how this relationship varies depending on the channel...
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We consider a labor market search model where, by working longer hours, individuals acquire greater skills and thereby … longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …
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We consider a labor market search model where, by working londer hours, individuals acquire greater skills and thereby … longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …
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present resulting from the Great Recession of 2007–09. We assess the human cost of increased unemployment by surveying what …
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impact of education on job search intensity, one potential mechanism through which education may increase the probability of … re-employment following unemployment. Given that the positive correlation between education and adaptability is likely to … impacts on job search intensity for the unemployed. …
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Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia. These countries simultaneously display high unemployment rates, low …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that … rates and do not reduce overall unemployment rates. …
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Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung …. Klenow und Rodriguez-Clare (1997) sowie Hall und Jones (1999) weisen dem Produktionsfaktor Humankapital für die Erklärung … Basis verbesserter Humankapital-Daten bestritten wird. Weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben ist in der aktuellen empirischen …
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We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become countercyclical...
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We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...
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