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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

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The Evolution of Modern Educational Systems: Technical Vs. General Education, Distributional Conflict and Growth

Bertocchi, Graziella; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We study the evolution of an educational system which is founded on a hierarchical differentiation between technical and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general...

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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …

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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000

Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...

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The Role of Rents to Human Capital in Economic Development

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

In an overlapping generations model, rents to human capital play a key role in increasing savings. In the absence of such rents, the return to human capital is entirely appropriated by the old and accumulation is entirely determined by the income to fixed factors. If rents are introduced by...

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Spatial agglomeration dynamics

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...

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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...

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Cross-country growth comparison : theory to empirics

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Phases of Imitation and Innovation in a North-South Endogenous Growth Model

Chui, Michael; Currie, David; Levine, Paul L; Pearlman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

: imitation of Northern products; imitation and innovation; and finally, innovation only. In particular, the model has the …. First, because subsidies to Southern innovation benefit the North as well, it is beneficial to the North to pay for some of … these subsidies. Second, because the ability of the South to assimilate Northern knowledge and innovate depends on Southern …

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