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This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of “inclusive growth”, with a brief …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
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lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …
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end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …
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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 … the security of property rights has played a critical role in promoting economic growth. Ethnic heterogeneity has been a …
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hypothesis. Thus, our findings suggest that not all MENA countries need to sacrifice economic growth to decrease their emission … growth. …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of … technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The … capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
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