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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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distribution. Spatial inequality is a Cass-Koopmans saddlepath, and the global distribution of economic activity converges towards … egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …
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The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and upward mobility relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both own social status and greater mobility with...
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Should raising the growth rate of GDP per capita be a policy goal of governments in general, and of the British government in particular? Many people would say no, for the following reasons: 1) GDP is hopelessly flawed as a measure of welfare; 2) Growing GDP is pointless since most people don't...
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model which suggests that improvements in ICT will increase the dispersion of economic activity across cities making city …
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structural changes over the same period such as increased globalisation and usageof ICT. I argue that the increase might equally … positive correlation between ICT and net entry share - a main result of earlier studies- becomes more significant. …
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Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers' convergence could therefore...
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How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting …-sector model is required because of the very rapid rate at which the prices of ICT products have fallen in the past and are … expected to fall in the future. According to the two-sector model, the main boost to growth comes from ICT use, not ICT …
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We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and in the 1990s the dominant, role in accounting for labour … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …
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productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …
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