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Culture Shocks and Consequences: the connection between the arts and urban economic growth
Sheppard, Stephen; Pedroni, Peter - Economics Department, Williams College - 2012
Is there a relationship between local arts and culture production and local prosperity that is permanent rather than transitory? The answer to this question determines whether arts and culture production generates economic growth or a temporary `multiplier' effect that diminishes over time. We...
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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The Pure Ricardian Theory of Privatization.
Saint-Paul, G. - Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique … - 1995
In this paper, we analyse the macroeconomic impact of large scale privatization from the point of view of the neo-classical growth model.
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Soziale Dienste und Europäisches Gemeinschaftsrecht - Die freie Wohlfahrtspflege zwischen nationalstaatlicher Souveränität in der Sozialpolitik und europäischem Wettbewerb im Diens...
Eckardt, Martina - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2000
Obwohl die Kompetenz zur Ausgestaltung ihrer sozialen Sicherungssysteme nach wie vor bei den Mitgliedstaaten der europäischen Union liegt, wendet der Europäische Gerichtshof seiner bisherigen Tradition folgend das europäische Gemeinschaftsrecht zunehmend auch auf die wirtschaftliche Seite...
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
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Pro Bono Work and Trust in Expert Fields
Ong, David; Yang, Chun-Lei - CESifo - 2014
A controversy has been simmering in law for at least 30 years about whether pro bono work should be mandatory for lawyers, who now donate 1-3% of their time to the poor. This has centered on the unmet legal needs of the poor, the duty of lawyers, and the contrast with US doctors, who are...
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Incentives and invention in universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
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FOUNDATIONS OF BANKING ORIGIN. GOVERNANCE AND NORMATIVE PROFILES IN THE ITALIAN CONTEXT
RANGONE, Adalberto - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 35 (2012) 2(44), pp. 16-32
Nowadays Corporate Governance is one of the most interesting and controversial matters of research and study. Undoubtedly, the economic developments of the last decade have made the need for detailed analysis about the processes of Governance and its impact on corporate choices even more...
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South Sudan's Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation
Larson, Greg; Ajak, Peter Biar; Pritchett, Lant - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2013
challenges (fighting corruption, upholding the rule of law, establishing democratic institutions). South Sudan, the world … building more or less failed in South Sudan, leaving the world's newest country mired in a "capability trap" (Andrews et al … disruptive innovation that has emerged: Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA). To escape from the world's newest capability …
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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-profit Provision and Charity Selection
Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - CESifo - 2014
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
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