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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - CESifo - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth
Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2011
This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...
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Dualism and Cross-Country Growth Regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004
This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Long, Ngo Van; Poschke, Markus - CESifo - 2014
Long run economic growth goes along with structural change. Recent work has identified explanatory factors on the demand side (non-homothetic preferences) and on the supply-side, in particular differential productivity growth across sectors and differences in factor proportions and capital...
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Structural Change in OECD Comparative Advantage
Brakman, Steven; Inklaar, Robert; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2010
In the post-war period, the goods composition of trade in OECD countries has changed considerably. We analyze the evolution of comparative advantage using a detailed trade data set and a new analytical tool: the harmonic (weighted) mass index, which enables us to identify periods of structural...
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2013
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …
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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
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