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Social Capital Formation in Rural, Urban and Suburban Communities

Debertin, David L.; Goetz, Stephan J. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2013

community. Based on these definitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring social capital and its indicators is … of three prototype communities–a small rural community, a modern city suburb, and a community located in the core of a … central city are outlined. For each prototype community, social capital formation strategies and indicators suggesting …

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Public goods and rural development in Poland

Gramzow, Andreas; Perick, Martin - European Rural Development Network - ERDN - 2006

studied in a simple game-theoretic model. Market, state, and community as three institutional alternatives for solving this …

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Overlapping

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002

We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...

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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets

Gaston, Noel; Nelson, Douglas - 2001

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...

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Schooling costs and child labour in rural Pakistan

Hazarika, Gautam; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2002

A conventional argument in the child-labor debate is that improvements in access to schools are an effective way to reduce the labor force participation of children. It is argued that schooling competes with economic activity in the use of children's time, and enhanced access to schools,...

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Allocation of children's time endowment between schooling and work in rural Ethiopia

Admassie, Assefa - 2002

Children have always been part of the economic life of societies. Historical evidence indicates that the contribution of children to family income in cash or in kind has been consistently significant. Currently, the issue of child labor has become an important global development issue in...

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The impact of increased school: Enrollment on economic growth in Tanzania

Seebens, Holger; Wobst, Peter - 2003

Failure to accumulate human capital is one of the pressing problems of developing countries. Lacking human capital formation bears consequences on an economy wide level, since education contributes to labor productivity. We examine the impact of increased school enrollment with regard to...

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Labour Supply and Inequality for Wage-Earning Farm Households in Spain

Garcia, Inmaculada; Molina, Jose Alberto - 2001

We provide empirical evidence on labour supply and inequality for wage-earning farm households in Spain, using two cross-sections from 1991 and 1994. The fundamental results can be divided into two groups. With respect to the labour supply: i) household size has a positive effect on male supply...

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The Impact of the agricultural sector on cyclical unemployment and output in EU

Lawler, K.; Katsouli, E.; Pallis, D. - 2003

The purpose of this paper was to estimate changes in cyclical unemployment and output in the EU using an Okun's law equation, extended with a new variable, namely, the share of the economically active labour force of the agricultural sector in the total economy. Treating both the NAIRU and the...

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Job Creation in Italy: Geography, Determinants and Perspectives

Peri, Giovanni; Cunat, Alejandro - 2001

The extremely large disparities in employment rates across Italian regions, and the bad performance of the Italian economy in terms of job creation in the 80´s and early 90´s make job creation a top-priority in the economic policy agenda. This paper uses data on employment from 784 Local Labor...

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