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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761790
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Convergence to the Managerial Frontier
Maloney, William F.; Sarrias, Mauricio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the … those of its close competitors. Part of the process of convergence to the frontier across the development process represents … that lag the frontier benchmark. Among potential explanatory variables that may drive convergence, ownership and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790511
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition …
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A Pair-Wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence
Pesaran, M. Hashem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also …-2000. Overall, the results do not support output convergence, and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566528
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703527
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Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality. Empirical analysis of firms' production functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325440
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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323543
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
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Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514853
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529145