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“...The world is plagued by a plethora of economic problems, which is why economics is sometimes called “the dismal science”. Two of these problems are at the core...”

“...Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In...”

“...This paper is about analyzing labor markets in developing countries, searching for both improved understanding and greater policy relevance. Following a...”

“...This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes—a concept different from other notions such as mobility as...”

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“...In recent years Argentina’s economy has experienced both rapid growth and severe decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who...”

“...This paper presents a welfare economic analysis of the benefits of various labor market policies in the Harris–Todaro labor market model. The policies...”

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