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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ‘classics’, however (Fisher (1935),...
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transformation depression observed in CEE and CIS, and allowed it to generate high rates of economic growth that have now lasted for … respectable economic growth, demonstrating that numerous forms of the transition process can generate long term economic growth …
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economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader … independent. The oft-reported significant cross-country relationships of many variables to economic growth may merely demonstrate …
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population growth and its social stability effects dissipated. These conclusions are based on a new dataset encompassing 39 … and other types of social unrest, population growth and a host of other variables. The paper first documents that county …-level variations in poor relief had a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful non-monotonic impact on population growth …
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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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