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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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legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier …, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …
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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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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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contribute to longer-term growth by building human and financial capital or degrade long-run growth by creating labor … find that remittances exert a weakly positive impact on long-term macroeconomic growth. The paper also considers the …
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We present a harmonized data set on intangible investment for a number of EU countries and an analysis of growth. …
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economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … implies that trade liberalization provided growth opportunity to larger and more productive plants irrespective of their …
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calculate welfare gaps and growth rates in a sample of developed countries with high-quality total factor productivity and … total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a … the degree of market competition. It applies to open economies as well, if total factor productivity is constructed using …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
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How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …
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