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rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL …, the sequence of improvements in various aspects of QoL is not always the same from one part of the world to another. And … GDP per capita. In contrast to the results of simple international point-of-time comparisons, history suggests that …
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actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over the last thirty to forty years? We draw attention to...
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The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War …
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This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We …
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international conflicts on domestic political institutions. We argue that mass-armies, which appeared in Europe after the French …, which in turn depends on the economic incentives that are provided to them. The need to provide such incentives implies that …
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