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(Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models …
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In the presence of agglomeration economies one might expect a relocation and concentration of industries. Then firm start-up activities may be assumed to reveal those effects. We introduce an empirical testable model inspired by the New Economic Geography and human capital externalities...
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We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth … investment in research and development and the growth rate of theeconomy. …
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economic growth. We derive an iterative procedure for solving the Euler equation and apply it to an example adapted from Pan …
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We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort …-competitive wage differential between sectors and a monitoring intensity that is a source of fixed costs for the firm. Growth is driven … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …
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structural change in industrial import patterns is in principleambiguous. A standard empirical growth model is augmented by … activitiesimpact differently on economic growth is tested on a sample of 45 countries (OECD members andselected Asian and Latin … estimation pointtowards a positive long-run growth effect arising from trade specialization in medium …
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This paper examines the effects of taxation on long-run growthin a two-sector endogenous growth model with (i) physical … thecase with a unique (interior) balanced growth path and the casewith multiple balanced growth paths. Due to the flexibility … incometaxation, where capital and labor income are taxed equally, theresulting effect on the growth rate is negative. The …
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modifications of the conventionaltheory. Firstly, multiple feedbackmechanisms or “growth engines” are identified. Secondly, a … ofproduction through demand on growth is accounted for. A formal modelis analytically solvedunder a condition of a constant growth …
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Although the literature on the effectiveness of child care centers in developing countries is thin, most of the studies have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early ages. Using different matching techniques, the results...
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Using a discontinuity in the funding scheme, we evaluate the impact of home visitsand child care centers on poor children and mothers in Ecuador. We find thathome visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for mothers'psychological well-being but reduce mothers' labor...
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