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Equilibrium and convergence in personal income distribution? : how European countries performed during a phase of huge economic turbulence (2004-2017)

Guo, Yanling; Sell, Friedrich L. - 2020 - This version: January 2020

The authors set up a political economy equilibrium framework for personal income distribution. Located in status theory, their concept is able to explain what justifies a certain or optimal degree of inequality in the society. The authors present an empirical analysis of personal income...

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Using a trade-induced catch-up model to explain China's provincial economic growth 1978 - 97

Yao, James Yudong; Lyhagen, Johan - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper attempts to make an innovative contribution to the growth literature by proposing a trade-induced catch up model in which imitation benefit is explicitly modelled and trade knowledge spillover is considered. The resulting income dynamics is in the error correction form. The Pooled...

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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Ageing and productivity growth in OECD regions : combatting the economic impact of ageing through productivity growth?

Daniele, Federica; Honiden, Taku; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2019

OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth required to maintain per capita GDP levels constant...

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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China

Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel … estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a threshold model. Our results show that economic convergence is …

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Unconditional convergence in currency unions : an analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009

Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013

We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous … studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely … question the focus of the traditional literature on average (beta-)convergence and suggest substantial non-linearities in …

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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions

Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth. We adopt a system approach and investigate the effects on all regional input factors and output by means of a flexible spatial panel VAR (SpPVAR) model. This allows us to deal...

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Economic integration and growth at the margin : a space-time incremental impact analysis

Mitze, Timo; Breidenbach, Philipp - 2018

We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth. Being particularly interested in studying the effects ‘at the margin’, we track the relative performance of regions adjacent to both sides of the integration border...

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Regional convergence and economic performance : a case study of the West German Laender

Buscher, Herbert S.; Felder, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 1999

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as … convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have been achieved with respect to a stronger harmonization of the …

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More bucks, more growth, more justice? : the effects of regional structural funds on regional economic growth and convergence in Germany

Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of the German structure program "Joint Task for the Improvement of Regional Economic Structures" (GRW) on regional economic growth. The paper extends the existing literature by several aspects. First of all, using the popular augmented Solow model by Mankiw et al....

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