Showing 1 - 10 of 35
factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to … for both growth and inequality. Calibrated TFP growth is consistent with the results from nonparametric growth accounting … more problems to modelling inequality than with growth: in particular, the main models in the literature, which take skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395928
This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386585
model's prediction. In the presence of nominal price rigidity faster growth is shown to lead to lower unemployment if the … rate of inflation is relatively high, as was the case in the 1970s. In general, the effect of growth on unemployment is … shown to be non-monotonic. There is a threshold level of inflation below (above) which faster growth leads to higher (lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095714
A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955872
The paper surveys the literature on the effects of finance on productivity growth. In both the theoretical and … growth. Focusing on the direct channels of growth, the author has found both positive and negative contribution of finance to … growth. Clearer positive effects emerge when considering growth channels related to productivity dynamics, with the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956114
Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886853
as the consumption-wealth ratio, the growth rate of wealth, and welfare, in a two-country world, based on a portfolio … sharing. The theoretical results for the growth rate depend on differences on productivities and consumption-wealth ratios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983184
between windfall profits, growth and households’ welfare is less straightforward than what the simple model of the "resource … productivity enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving both shared growth and macroeconomic stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012879
growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier …We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755150
growth strategy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755167