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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Polachek, Solomon; Sevastianova, Daria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...

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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...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; DROMEL, Nicolas L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection 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...

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …

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Cross Sections Are History

Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL) conditions almost always point to a strong positive association...

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Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...

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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?

Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...

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Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms

Gregory, Bob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...

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