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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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The causal effect of political power on the provision of public education : evidence from a weighted voting system

Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Tyrefors, Björn - 2020 - This version: May 29, 2021

that political institutions are a key determinant of human capital accumulation and long-run economic development. …

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Informality and long-run growth

Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

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Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and the Rule of Law

Bhagat, Sanjai - 2021

increasingly concerned about how this pie is sliced, that is, about income inequality. We find that countries with greater … adherence to Rule of Law are characterized by less income inequality. These results highlight the importance of Rule of Law in … generating economic growth and decreasing income inequality …

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Food quality competition among companies and government food safety supervision under asymmetric product substitution

Shen, Ningzhou; Song, Yinghua; Liu, Dan; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 56, pp. 221-239

The frequent exposures of food safety events in recent years have aroused extensive social concerns. Food quality and safety are hot topics in the food engineering field. In a market with mutual competitions, the products of different enterprises are substitutive, and enterprises have to achieve...

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A new societal contract

Snower, Dennis J. - 2019

This paper argues that the traditional societal contract that underlies the market economy has run its course and needs to be replaced by a new contract, based on a new conception of the "empowering economy." Whereas different societal contracts are relevant to different societies, there must be...

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Socioeconomic inequality in low-carbon technology adoption

Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023

exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and its underlying sources. We exploit nationally representative longitudinal … relative contribution of each socioeconomic factor to the total estimated socioeconomic inequality. Our results suggest that …

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