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We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...
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generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …
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Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...
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En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...
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I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one- half of income differences across countries can be explained by a single factor: The steady-state effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on worker productivity. These differences in cognitive...
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge …. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent … empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the knowledge filter than are incumbent firms …
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically …-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms … that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …
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The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
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The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556858
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