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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - CESifo - 2013
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2010
and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727302
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The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - CESifo - 2014
of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital ac-cumulation, income and … inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … decreases and the liberalization path has stochastic dominance over the Baseline-As-Usual. These results are very robust to our …
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2013
This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877851
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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries
Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - CESifo - 2006
The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how appropriate information provision enhances efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094193
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Sources of the German Productivity Demise – Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007
While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany’s productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany’s productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181228
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Modeling Institutions, Start-Ups and Productivity during Transition
Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2010
The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572571
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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?
Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010
France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583670
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - CESifo - 2015
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
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