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This paper investigates the intergenerational mobility with regard to people's decision to work in the U.S. financial industry over the last 47 years. I present evidence that children of fathers who worked in the financial industry during their childhood are about 8 percentage points more likely...
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Services have long been perceived as playing a secondary role in world trade. In particular, the role of services trade … for about 50% of world trade and are significant in exports of countries of all levels of development. In addition, cross … an important determinant of foreign direct investment, economy-wide productivity, manufacturing competitiveness and …
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The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more productive firms will be able to overcome these sunk costs. This...
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Services is the fastest-growing sector of today's global economy and trade in services is the most dynamic segment of … world trade. However, its potential remains constrained by a variety of barriers: trade costs are estimated to be almost …
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The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the "classics", however (Fisher (1935), Clark...
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Services have long been perceived as playing a secondary role in world trade. In particular, the role of services trade … for about 50% of world trade and are significant in exports of countries of all levels of development. In addition, cross … an important determinant of foreign direct investment, economy-wide productivity, manufacturing competitiveness and …
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Chapter 1 : Introduction -- Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and After: The Indian Experience -- Chapter 3:Post-Reform Development in Indian States: Some Issues on Regional Inequality -- Chapter 4: Agriculture in the Perspective of Economic Liberalisation in India -- Chapter 5: Agriculture and State...
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