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An Econometric Analysis of Remittances-Growth : A Macroeconomic Study in Developing Country

Yilmaz, Binhan Elif - 2021

The importance of the flow of workers’ remittances in the economies of developing countries during the last few decades or so cannot be ignored at the face changing global order where most of the economies in the world are transforming themselves to the call of globalization and transmuting...

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Human-Capital Formation : The Importance of Endogenous Longevity

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...

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Human-Capital Formation : The Importance of Endogenous Longevity

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

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Volume of Trade and Dynamic Network Formation in Two-Sided Economies

Pongou, Roland - 2013

We study the long-run stability of trade networks in a two-sided economy of agents labelled men and women. Each agent desires relationships with the other type, but having multiple partners is costly. This cost-benefit trade-off results in each agent having a single-peaked utility over the...

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Community Enterprises : an institutional innovation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüthi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

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Workings of the Melting Pot : Social Networks and the Evolution of Population Attributes

Brueckner, Jan K.; Smirnov, Oleg A. - 2021

This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and cultural assimilation by investigating the evolution of population attributes in a simple model where agents are influenced by their acquaintances. The main conclusion of the analysis is that attributes converge to a...

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The Peter Principle : A Theory of Decline

Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

Some have observed that individuals perform worse after being promoted. The Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, suggests that something is fundamentally misaligned in the promotion process. This view is unnecessary and inconsistent with the...

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Estimating the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country : a density discontinuity design approach

Jales, Hugo - 2017

relationship between latent sector and wages. I apply the method in the "PNAD", a nationwide representative Brazilian cross …

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Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Real Hourly Wages in the U.S.

Fernández-Val, Iván; Peracchi, Franco; Vella, Francis; … - 2019

We analyze the sources of changes in the distribution of hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the … annual hours of work and estimating a nonseparable model of wages which uses a control function to account for selection … distribution. We decompose changes in the distribution of wages into composition, structural and selection effects. Composition …

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