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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies

Bennett, John - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to quot;excessivequot; entry, a licence fee can increase … welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity …

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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2022

This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...

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Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Amodio, Francesco; Medina, Pamela; Morlacco, Monica - 2022

decrease firm entry cost …

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries : A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam

Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2022

AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...

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Gender and Industrialization : Developments and Trends in the Context of Developing Countries

Sorgner, Alina - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....

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By Choice and by Necessity : Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World

Margolis, David N. - 2014

Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...

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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014

We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...

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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded - 2012

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...

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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress

Broadberry, Stephen N. - 2015

Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such link: the role of commercialisation in raising efficiency wages as impersonal and anonymous...

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