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This paper examines the effect of an increase in vertical diversity in workers' skill on the long run growth rate of an … diversity is condutive to growth. As the main innovation, communication gap is introduced among workers. It is then shown that … growth may not be increasing with diversity. There may be an inverse-U shaped relationship. …
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and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote …
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diversity is low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income distribution and some targeted … diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special interest groups and … against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, these policies are not sustainable. There exists a …
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"Changes in India's seed regulations during the 1990s favored the growth of privately- as compared to publicly-funded sectors. Most advances have been made in the major millet crops, sorghum and pearl millet, as compared to finger millet and other minor millet crops, which in many ways dependent...
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This paper explores the implications of Uni.ed Growth Theory for the origins of existing di¤erences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identi.es the factors that have governed the pace of the transitionfrom...
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Wynn and Coolidge [2004] have hypothesized that one of the key reasons why the Homo Sapiens progressed to being modern man while the Neanderthal man didn�t, is that the former developed through innovation (from artefacts to advanced hunting methods) while the latter has left no trace of...
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Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...
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We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic networks. Individuals come in different types and have type-dependent benefits from friendships; we examine the properties of a steady-state equilibrium of a matching process of...
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BOOK REVIEW What Happens When a Diverse Society is Diverse: Exploring Multidimensional Identities Hakan G. Sıcakkan and Yngve G. Lithman (eds.)(2006) Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006, 252 pages, (ISBN 978-0-7734-5877-2, hardcover)
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