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Economic Growth, Technical Progress, and Social Capital: the Inverted U Hypothesis

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2011

We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technical progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technical progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the circumstances...

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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2024

We document that the gender gap in non-agricultural work in developing countries exists primarily among rural married workers, not singles. Rural married women dedicate a much larger portion of time to home production compared to other groups, making them less likely to pursue non-agricultural...

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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2024

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Social Capital, Trust, and Multiple Equilibria in Economic Performance

Growiec, Katarzyna; Growiec, Jakub - 2009

We propose a novel mechanism giving rise to poverty traps and multiple equilibria in economic performance. It is a potentially important source of persistent underdevelopment across countries and regions. At the core of this mechanism, bridging social capital and social trust feed back on each...

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Peasant Farmers and Pandemics: The Role of Seasonality and Labour-Leisure Trade-Off Decisions

Feuerbacher, Arndt; McDonald, Scott; Thierfelder, Karen - 2020

a recursive-dynamic economy-wide model that includes households’ labour-leisure trade-off decisions and encompasses the … local infection peaks. Peasant households can mitigate the impacts of the pandemic by reallocating time from leisure to … agricultural activities; this mitigation strategy is however limited in seasons when leisure is scarce. The study contributes to …

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Social capital, trust, and multiple equilibria in economic performance

Growiec, Katarzyna; Growiec, Jakub - 2009

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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2025

We document that the gender gap in non-agricultural work in developing countries exists primarily among rural married workers, not singles. Married women spend more time on home production, making them less likely to pursue non-agricultural employment. We extend a general equilibrium Roy model...

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Peasant Households and Pandemic Viral Diseases

Feuerbacher, Arndt; McDonald, Scott; Thierfelder, Karen - 2020

Outbreaks of infectious diseases are particularly devastating for developing countries and the poor: they deplete, through premature death and morbidity the primary asset of the poor – their labour – in economies with the least developed health care systems. This study examines how peasant...

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Structural Change and Labour Productivity in BRICS

Mungase, Sachin; Nikam, Supriya; Kothe, Satyanarayan - 2024

The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have seen varying GDP growth rates, averaging around 5 percent in the 1990s, rising to 8 percent in the 2000s, and about 5.5 percent from 2011 to 2020. Structural change and labour productivity are key for sustained economic...

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A dynamic model to estimate the “pure” productivity

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2005

As asserted in standard literature, there is an implicit circular relationship between the productivity growth and the potential level of production (and, consequently, the estimation of the natural rate of unemployment is also altered). In order to avoid such emerging impediment in any...

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