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a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the basis of data describing green revolution India. Estimates …
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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
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Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …
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, economic growth is very crucial. The responsiveness of growth towards poverty reduction is measured by the "growth elasticity … of poverty". The present study attempts to calculate growth elasticities of poverty in nine selected Asian countries for … appropriate because it directly calculates the elasticity by using the data of poverty rate and per capita GDP. The study also …
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importance of the distribution of brawn. -- Brawn ; health ; schooling ; gender …
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This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in response to market conditions) and through...
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rather than working, that community is rapidly outgrowing its resources. Why do fathers with families in poverty choose …
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This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms in response to market conditions and through...
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development, consonant with patterns of demographic transition. The results suggest that provision of public health that raises … productivity of private health spending may be an effective way to reduce income inequality …
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The literature on inter vivos and intergenerational transfers has largely focused on the possible determinants of such transfers. Specifically, much of the empirical work has examined whether transfers are driven by altruistic relationship between "dynastic" households. However, the empirical...
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