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Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005

This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...

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Addressing forced displacement in climate change adaptation : No longer a blind spot

OECD - 2023

This paper shows that climate-related forced displacement is insufficiently addressed in two fundamental commitments made towards the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) between 2015 and 2023: National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions...

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The Relationship between Business Ownership and Unemployment in Spain: A Matter of Quantity or Quality?/La relación entre el autoempleo y el desempleo en España: Una cuestión de ca...

VERHEUL, INGRID; VAN STEL, ANDRÉ; THURIK, ROY; URBANO, … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 24 (2006) Agosto, pp. 435-457

This paper examines the interrelations between self-employment and unemployment rates for Spain in the period 1972 … Stel and Thurik (2005) to Spain. The divergence between predicted and actual unemployment levels in Spain are explained by … industrial structure is characterized by a relatively high and fluctuating unemployment level and a relatively high and stable …

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Urbanisation and economic growth : some insights from the Himalayan state of Sikkim

Singha, Komol; Sherpa, Lakpa Doma; Jaman, Md. Samsur - In: The Indian economic journal 72 (2024) 3, pp. 411-426

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Intersecting Paths of Sustainable Development, Urbanization, and Women's Empowerment : 22nd Annual Conference of Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI), CESS, Hy...

Revathi, Ellanki (ed.); Awasthi, Ishwar Chandra (ed.); … - Indian Association of Social Science Institutions / … - 2024

. Illuminating Economic Disparity in India: Evaluating Nighttime Light Inequality as a proxy for Economic Inequality in India … societal challenges such as income inequality, climate change, and inclusive development. It presents research on social …

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Geography of skills and global inequality

Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Journal of development economics 142 (2020)

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Distribution of urban economic growth in post-reform India : an empirical assessment

Tripathi, Sabyasachi - In: Internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia : …, (pp. 309-338). 2019

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Is that really a Kuznets curve? : turning points for income inequality in China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - In: Journal of economic inequality 20 (2022) 4, pp. 749-776

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Recruiting intensity : recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in the labor market

Faberman, R. Jason - 2014

When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative...

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Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective

Rodríguez, Juan Prieto; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; … - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIII (2010) November, pp. 335-350

correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the …

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