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The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea
Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - 2009
This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...
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The Economic Value of Education in Agricultural Production: A Switching Regression Analysis of Selected East Asian Countries
Huang, Fung-Mey; Luh, Yir-Hueih - 2009
The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early … consequently obscure the true contribution of education in agricultural production. This study presents a more efficient version to … testing the hypothesis that education plays a key role in agricultural development using a switching regression model. Because …
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Analyzing Growth and Welfare Effects of Public Policies in Models of Endogenous Growth with Human Capital: Evidence from South Africa
Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba - 2008
Since the abolition of its Apartheid regime in 1994, South Africa has launched a massive program of education, which … of public spending on education is 1.3 times the average of industrialized countries (5.4%) and almost twice that of … shift in the allocation of government expenditures between public spending on education andtransfers as well as those of a …
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Anatomy of Stigmatized Behavior: Peer Influence and Relative Concern
Chen, Xi - 2011
This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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The contribution of female non-farm income to poverty reduction
Seebens, Holger - 2009
There is a widely held view that off-farm income in developing countries tends to reduce poverty, leading to the conclusion that policies should focus on the further diversification of income options of rural households. However, much off-farm employment might be initiated rather as a survival...
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KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND INNOVATIONS AS FACTORS OF AGRARIAN COMPETITIVENESS
Mihailovic, Branko; Hamovic, Vladana; Parausic, Vesna - 2009
improved and supported by adequate research and application of gained results. Experience acquired in research and education … technologies. But, in spite of great number of research workers and successful education system inherited from the communist period …
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Malaria and National Income: Examining a Two Way Causal Relationship
Datta, Saurabh; Reimer, Jeffrey J. - 2010
Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
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The Effects of Public Debt on Labor Demand in the United States
Garcia-Jimenez, Carlos I.; Mishra, Ashok K. - 2010
The relationship between appreciation of the exchange rate and employment is investigated in the period 1980-2008 for the United States. Previous literature has found a negative relationship, studying as channels of transmission the role of exports, substitution of factors of production, terms...
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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008
Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...
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Labor and Technology Change in the Nursery Industry
Bitsch, Vera; Buccola, Steven T. - 2010
The U.S. nursery industry is highly complex, and affected on their demand side by the construction industry and on their factor supply side by the market for low-skill labor, which in turn is influenced by gyrating construction activity as well as southern-border immigration. We examine an...
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