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Brueckner, Jan K. - CESifo - 2005

This paper uses an endogenous-growth model with overlapping generations to explore the connection between fiscal federalism and economic growth. The analysis shows that federalism, which allows public-good levels to be tailored to suit the differing demands of young and old consumers, who live...

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Ageing and Growth in the Small Open Economy

Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy whichincorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Depending...

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital: A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Navigating a Changing World Economy : ASEAN, the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China, and India

Petri, Peter A.; Zhai, Fan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013

), the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next two decades. By 2030, they could …

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Emergence of China and India in the New Millennium : Will it Facilitate Market Access for LDCs and Developing Countries?

Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic … dependence of India and China is mostly on the industrial intermediate sector, which is critical for their exports. It is … technology is examined. India and China have made steady progress in frontier technologies such as ICT and biotechnology, and …

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Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico

Gallagher, Kevin P.; Shafaeddin, Mehdi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexicos export-led market reforms over the past quarter … century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its … exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets. Building on …

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Financial Sector Development, FDI and Economic Growth in China.

Ljungwall, Christer; Li, Junjie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

increasing the rate of economic growth. Little attention, however, has been devoted to confirm or reject this link for China …

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What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?

Heston, Alan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …

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