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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...

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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal insurance: analysis using panel data

Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021

We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of...

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Differentiation and performance : an empirical investigation on the incentive effects of bonus plans

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...

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Is there a trade-off between employment and productivity?

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of...

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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....

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Political connections, business groups and innovation

Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; Silva, Thamashi de - 2023

It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional … non-affiliates, this is unsurprising given their access to additional resources. However, when we look at innovation at … the country level, we find that the wider consequences of BGs on innovation may be negative. …

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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Symbolic values, occupational choice, and economic development

Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); Jeanne, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...

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Population growth and multiple equilibria : inferences from a modified Ramsey model

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011

The demographic transition is introduced into the otherwise standard Ramsey model to generate multiple equilibria, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions under which multiplicity is realized. Three cases arise,...

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