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also uneven across space, it also seems relevant to wonder about the effects of the geographic agglomeration of economic … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change … specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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This paper studies the economic costs of conflicts at the country and ethnic group settlement level with light output data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a worldwide dataset of 7,704 individual ethnic group...
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This paper studies the economic costs of conflicts at the country and ethnic group settlement level with light output data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a worldwide data set of 7,704 individual ethnic group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021755
Following an old economic literature dealing with work sharing, the aim of this paper is to review the theoretical effects on unemployment and inequality we may expect from a working time reduction (WTR). To do so, we begin considering labour demand models and we go through general equilibrium...
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Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among … international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long … domestic support for banning child labor within developing countries, and thus may contribute to the persistence of the child-labor …
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the standard incidence formula. If the tax changes on multiple related commodities, while maintaining perfect competition …
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What happens when sovereign governments coordinate their tax policies? This is an important research topic in government and economics. We focus on implications of re-allocating taxing rights away from source countries (where goods are produced) to market countries (where goods are consumed) and...
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This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and...
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This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107902
Global warming, sea level rise, and extreme weather events have made climate change a top priority for policymakers across the globe. But which policies are best suited to tackle the enormous challenges presented by our changing climate? This Article proposes that policymakers turn to prediction...
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