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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279247
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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959641
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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States
Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary in-house knowledge and show that it is associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334346
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Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income : Estimating the Interrelationships
Rigobon, Roberto - 2004
difference in the structural variances in these two sub-samples to gain identification. We find that democracy and the rule of … a negative impact on income levels and democracy, but a positive effect on rule of law. Higher income produces greater … openness and better institutions, but these effects are not very strong. Rule of law and democracy tend to be mutually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467940
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The Shape of Production Function and the Direction of Technical Change
Jones, Charles I. - 2004
This paper views the standard production function in macroeconomics as a reduced form and derives its properties from microfoundations. The shape of this production function is governed by the distribution of ideas. If that distribution is Pareto, then two results obtain: the global production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468236
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Democracy, Technology, and Growth
Aghion, Philippe - 2007
We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although … empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that … democracy influences productivity growth in different sectors differently and that this differential effect may be one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465474
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Borders and Growth
Spolaore, Enrico - 2002
This paper presents a framework to understand and measure the effects of political borders on economic growth and per capita income levels. We present a model providing a theoretical foundation to estimate empirically the effects of political borders on growth. In our model, political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469486
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Does EdTech Substitute for Traditional Learning? Experimental Estimates of the Educational Production Function
Bettinger, Eric - 2020
Experimental studies rarely consider the shape and nature of the education production function, which is useful for deriving optimal levels of input substitution in increasingly resource constrained environments. Because of the rapid expansion of EdTech as a substitute for traditional learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481924
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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2004
In this paper, we first describe the 1990 DEED, the most recently constructed matched employer-employee data set for the United States that contains detailed demographic information on workers (most notably, information on education). We then use the data from manufacturing establishments in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468369
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Taxation and the Sources of Growth : Estimates from United States Multinational Corporations
Cummins, Jason G. - 1998
Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains. In this paper, I use this framework to guide the growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472274