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This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...
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for the latest export data from Germany and the Czech Republic. Results show that the model is very successful in … standard gravity models. In the proposed model (total) shares of export from a given country depend only on a gross domestic … explaining export shares with coefficients of determinacy 0.75 and 0.98 respectively. …
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regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the … emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … unification of West-East Germany with a dummy variable. The results are intriguing, and contradicting with most of the earlier …
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We present an empirical model of earnings that controls for observable and unobservable characteristics of workers (person effects), unmeasured characteristics of their employers (firm effects), and unmeasured characteristics of worker-firm matches (match effects). We interpret these as the...
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this set-up to the relationship between export dynamics and economic development. Trade flows are assumed to grow as a … economic development literature: although export is very concentrated so that large bilateral flows are rare, countries … characterized by a large number of export relations are more likely to capture such “big hits”. The stochastic model provides a …
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This paper focuses on an economic aspect of the disarmament question: the international market of armaments. I shall explore the thesis that arms trade is an increasingly important factor in North-South economic relations, that it affects not only international trade patterns, but also through...
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The paper explores the impacts of resource export policies on major macro variables of the exporter and the importer … moves towards world equilibrium with higher volumes of resource exports. Under certain conditions, increased resource … exports produce price distortions with negative consequences. When the South's technologies are dual and its traditional …
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success, regardless of export choosen manner and the type of contract used, is the price, contributing to the size of revenues … from export, revenues that allow, among other things, make investments in infrastructure leading to raising living … this article I will address the main categories of prices used in the export and import activity, also the models …
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