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Brain drain and factor complementarity
Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2006
In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452524
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Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are The Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - 2005
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476834
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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009
In my first paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on … physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions of log migration on … economic conditions: a one percentage point decline in lagged growth increases physician out-migration by approximately 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476584
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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530246
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Know How, Know Whom, Know Where: A Global Analysis of Investor Experience and Startup Performance
Álvarez-Garrido, Elisa - 2010
This dissertation analyzes where and when experienced investors add value to startups. Building on the resource-dependence theory and the relational view of the firm, I argue that the positive effect of investor experience on startup performance is stronger when the startup faces a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439052
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Macroeconomic and institutional determinants of stock market development in MENA region: new results from a panel data analysis
Cherif, Monther; Gazdar, Kaothar - 2010
This paper provides new evidence on the influence of macroeconomic environment and institutional quality on stock market development, using data from 14 MENA countries over the period of 1990-2007. Using both panel data and instrumental variable techniques, we find that income level, saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441711
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Characteristics of resources and the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Germany: the cases of fruit tree meadows and wolf protection
Thiel, Andreas; Schleyer, Christian; Plieninger, Tobias - 2011
provision is governed. This paper scrutinizes determinants of institutions that regulate the provision of biodiversity and … design of institutions. In the case of wolf protection, the state uses its power to modify property rights in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442285
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Use of Coordination Fields in Food Economics
Toth, Jozsef - 2010
The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern organization theory, price theory and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442656
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Título: Quebra dos Contratos de Soja Verde
Rezende, Christiane Leles; Zylbersztajn, Decio - 2008
O desenvolvimento do complexo agroindustrial da soja no Brasil deu-se, em parte, comodecorrência do surgimento de formas alternativas de crédito, tal como a venda antecipada desoja por meio de contratos. O problema que motivou este estudo foi decorrente das quebrascontratuais por parte dos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442780
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Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of Skill Formation, Wage Compression, and Electoral Systems
Soskice, David - 2010
institutions, and redistribution. We bring the two together by emphasizing the role of skill formation. We argue that union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475518