Transactional framework of sharecropping: empirical evidence

The growth of business firms: theoretical framework and empirical evidence.

We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution P(g)(g) of business-firm growth rates. The model predicts that P(g)(g) is exponential in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent zeta = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in this field have been focusing exclusively on the Laplace shape of the body of the dis...

Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality

The health financing transition: a conceptual framework and empirical evidence.

Almost every country exhibits two important health financing trends: health spending per person rises and the share of out-of-pocket spending on health services declines. We describe these trends as a "health financing transition" to provide a conceptual framework for understanding health markets and public policy. Using data over 1995-2009 from 126 countries, we examine the various explanation...

CAGISTrans: A Transactional Framework for Cooperative Work1

The problem addressed in this paper deals with data sharing as a means to cooperate. Our main focus is on transactional mechanisms to manage concurrent accesses to (partially) shared dataand resource bases. Several transaction models have been developed for this purpose. However, they may still be unsatisfactory with respect to support for runtime changes and heterogeneity. The paper outlines o...

Implementing Atomic Rendevous within a Transactional Framework

The transaction concept has been widely used as a powerful tool for the reliable structuring and programming of applications in several fields such as databases, distributed systems ... In this paper, we address the problem of implementing the CSP rendezvous whithin a transactional framework. In fact, several authors have studied the problem of implementing CSP rendezvous on networks of machine...