variables – education, governance or openness – result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies. …

service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our demand analysis seeks also to accommodate the impact of technology and … trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other …) labor that should assist in short-run policy design and to identify the extent of skill biases or otherwise in trade and …

? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth may be positive. This result rests on …

findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality … per capita growth rates as a result and will have 0.1-0.4 more children per woman, and, by 2015, an average of 15 per 1000 …

growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper. …

macroeconomic performance (that is, on per capita GDP growth). However, we find that dynamic ethnic fractionalization is negatively … related to growth (although this is still not the case for linguistic and religious fractionalization). These findings are …

of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … growth and produce and commercialize high quality innovations. They are more satisfied than employees. More importantly …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …