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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
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Structural Change and Convergence of Energy Intensity across OECD Countries, 1970-2005
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
aggregate energy intensity dynamics. A convergence analysis reveals that only after 1995 cross-country variation in aggregate … convergence in Services. Moreover, we find evidence for the hypothesis that across sectors lagging countries are catching-up with … leading countries, with rates of convergence on average being higher in Services than in Manufacturing. Aggregate convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256243
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International Comparisons of Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Performance: Stylised Facts and Decomposition of Trends
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256348
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Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257015
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Dynamics and Determinants of Energy Intensity in the Service Sector: A Cross-Country Analysis, 1980–2005
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Pfeiffer, Birte - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We present a detailed analysis of energy intensity developments across 23 service sectors in 18 OECD countries over the period 1980−2005. We find that the shift towards a service economy has contributed to lower overall energy intensity levels in the OECD, but this contribution would have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257306
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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255983
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Dynamics of Chinese Comparative Advantage
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage as measured by export shares and the Balassa index using 3-digit and 4-digit sectors for the period 1970 – 1997. We use novel tools to identify periods of rapid structural change and the persistence of comparative advantage, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257316
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Accepted for publication in the <I>Journal of Development Economics</I>.<P> This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255851
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut
Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256507
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The Great Divergence: A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial … revolution, followed by a "Great Convergence", that is decreasing world inequality after the take-off of the latecomers of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256592