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In industrial economies, firms build their market position by consistently investing in R&D over time and accumulating knowledge protected by secrecy, patents and other appropriability devices. To explore the macroeconomic implications of this fact, I construct an economy where oligopolistic...
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We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches-a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach-we...
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"Pro-poor" tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic … more. It is also a major source of new employment, especially for women, youth and the rural poor in general. While …-sectoral linkages. Taking export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy" in turn, the working paper analyzes …
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priorities of export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy". It is well-known that Bangladesh is under … strong pressure to diversify its exports, to generate new employment (especially in rural areas), and to respond to critical …
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This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to … adult employment. We estimate fixed effects linear probability models. We find that child labor is associated with … vulnerable employment in adulthood. Negative adult employment effects arise when children who are younger than 11-12 work more …
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; controls eventually increased their incomes through business and casual labor; and so both groups converged in employment … on mortality, fertility, health or education. …
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Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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We study the effect of endogenous time preference in a simple neo-classical model of growth. The variation of time preference causes the economy to have multiple steady states, some of which are similar to poverty traps. The stability properties of these steady states are analyzed. The results...
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The African continent has grown by more than 4 per cent yearly on average during the past decade. However, the link between this remarkable growth rate and poverty reduction is neither obvious nor simple. This paper focuses on the elasticity of poverty with respect to GDP growth at the sectoral...
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