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Structural Change out of Agriculture: Labor Push versus Labor Pull
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
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Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries
Arnold, Jens; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short … to heterogeneity in population growth, technical change or progressiveness of income taxes. Our estimated speed of …
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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006
Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper is no longer available.
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646291
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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations
Messina, Julián - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, economy-wide barriers to entry...
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Population Growth and Multiple Equilibria: Inferences from a Modified Ramsey Model
Lehmijoki, Ulla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The demographic transition is introduced into the otherwise standard Ramsey model to generate multiple equilibria, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions under which multiplicity is realized. Three cases arise,...
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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector
Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
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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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
reduction in infant mortality or crude death rates exhibited a positive effect on growth in income per capita and increased … population growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220618
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …
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