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Human Capital Composition, R&D and the Increasing Role of Services
Sequeira, Tiago; Reis, Ana Balcão - EconWPA - 2004
of a negative effect of technological development on the accumulation of high-tech human capital. Under this new and … capital composition and the transition across stages of development are endogenously determined. We relate an increasing R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118667
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Relationships between consumption and inequality in the Indian states
McKay, Andrew; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003
Current evidence on the relationships between growth and inequality is predominantly based on cross-country data sets or panel data sets covering a small number of time periods. But these relationships, being fundamentally dynamic in nature, need to be considered over a much longer time horizon....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407723
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Industrialization and Infant Mortality
Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005
On average, infant mortality rates are lower in more industrialized nations, yet health and mortality worsened during early industrialization in some nations. This study examines the effects of growing manufacturing employment on infant mortality across 274 Indonesian districts from 1985 to...
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From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004
This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained … and development. The inconsistency of non-unified growth models with the main characteristics of the process of … development across most of human history induced growth theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062763
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Factor Replacement versus Factor Substitution, Mechanization and Asymptotic Harrod Neutrality
Givon, Danny - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006
under-development; despite the lack of non-convexities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063382
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Unified Growth Theory
Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2005
This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained …-unified growth models with the main characteristics of the process of development across most of human history induced growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556052
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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth
Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004
The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...
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Technological Leaders and Followers in a World Economy
Haruyama, Testsugen; Hashimoto, Ken-ichi - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2007
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade and economic growth in a world economy with a continuum of countries. Countries are different in research productivity. Innovation, imitation and the relative wage between countries are endogenously determined as well...
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De-industrialization of the Riches and the Rise of China
Üngör, Murat - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2009
This paper tries to understand the structural transformation in a global world. While employment and output have shifted out of the industrial sector and into services in the G7 countries, the majority of world manufacturing employment is now located in the developing countries of Asia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124022
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Long-Run Development in the Open Economy
Milionis, Petros - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2012
Are open economies characterized by superior economic performance in the long-run? This paper revisits this important question from the point of the view of unified growth theory. Contrary to other recent attempts to study this question, the paper considers two distinct channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124125