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The paper provides an alternative explanation for the "resource curse" based on the income effect resulting from high … resource sector revenues in the future. This income channel of the resource curse is stronger for countries with lower degrees …
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This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational...
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This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model calibrated to the U.S. shows that market...
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Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
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determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …
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This paper investigates the determinants of interregional migration in Italy for the period 1985-2006, during which different migration trends took place. In so doing, in addition to the traditional variables of Harris and Todaro model, the impact of housing prices and externalities variables...
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valeur. Le résultat net, le résultat étendu et le « Full Fair Value Income » représentent la performance et le risque des … du résultat étendu est presque deux fois celle du résultat net, et que la volatilité du « Full Fair Value Income » est … Fair Value Income ». Finalement, nous testons et démontrons que la volatilité additionnelle du résultat étendu est corrélée …
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This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification and income change within Zambian smallholder … households, and investigates what the constraints of income diversification are in this group. A panel data set of roughly 7000 … smallholder farmer households interviewed in 2001 and 2004 is used. Different combinations of the four main income generating …
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be the main driver; 2) Rural income growth does not come from agriculture alone so options to diversify income are very … facing households trying to improve agriculture directly as well as trying to improve possibilities of income diversification …
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The study focuses on the usage of income in Germany as well as in Lower Saxony. Concretely, the material situation of … database the scientific use file of the Income and Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) 2003 is used …. In detail, calculations especially concerning the item “living” are made. Furthermore, income and price elasticities are …
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