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HALF LIFE OR HALF CONVERGENCE? ENDOGENOUS IDENTIFICATION OF REGIONAL CLUBS ACROSS EUROPE 1980-2002

Battisti, Michele; Vaio, Granfranco Di - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera …

Assessing regional growth and convergence across Europe is a matter of primary importance, either in light of the … structural heterogeneities and spatial effects could fail to detect club convergence phenomena. In this paper, we adopt a … spatially filtered mixture regression approach that endogenously identifies regional clubs of beta-convergence, in order to …

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Institutions and geography: Empirical test of spatial growth models for European regions

Arbia, Giuseppe; Battisti, Michele; Di Vaio, Gianfranco - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2009

the regional output per worker and raises the speed of convergence. By contrast, the pure geographical metrics is … underperforming, while underestimating the convergence dynamics. …

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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

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Breaking the cycle : a strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth in Burundi

Baghdadli, Ilhem (contributor) - 2008

A strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth -- Burundi's growth -- Agricultural recovery : food security and beyond -- Export crops : toward a significant contribution to growth -- Overcoming the main obstacles to growth

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Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

Unger, Kurt - 2005

capita income growth and migratory flows intensity. The most relevant results are the existence of income convergence over …

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Discrimination, migration, and economic outcomes : evidence from World War I

Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2020

Are the costs of discrimination mainly borne by the targeted group or by society? This paper examines both individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying Germans living in the U.S. during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their previously high social standing, we...

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Young, Andrew T. - 2014

Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...

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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America

Allcott, Hunt - 2014

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a "Natural Resource Curse,"0 perhaps as the crowd-out of manufacturing productivity spillovers reduces long-term growth? We combine new data on oil and gas endowments with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and gas...

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Railroads and American Economic Growth : A "Market Access" Approach

Donaldson, Dave - 2013

This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by...

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