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Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

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Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality and Resource Scarcity

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper has resulted in a chapter in: (R.U. Ayres, D. Simpson, and M. Toman (eds.)), Scarcity and Growth …

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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

(Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration … institutions are needed to keep entrepreneurs in check. A gradual take-off to perpetual growth is explained by a feedback effect … stagnation differs from balanced growth by the presence of relatively many small firms of low productivity. …

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Lobbying on Entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

growth opportunities. Also,higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated with more ef-fective legal …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Published in <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01613.x/abstract">The Scandinavian Journal of Economics"</A>, 112(3), 618-39.The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic...</a>

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Capital Markets Integration, Growth and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Analysis

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

See also the publication in the European Economic Review, 2002, 301-327. The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenouseconomies with intergenerational transfers carried out in the form of bequest and investmentin human capital. We examine in competitive...

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Do Services differ from Manufacturing? The Post-Entry Performance of Firms in Dutch Services

Audretsch, D.B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …

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Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post effects of risk …-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the ergodic distribution …-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex ante effect (i.e. the …

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Trade and Growth under Limited Liberalization

Bakanova, Marina; Souza, Lúcio Vinhas de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization … for the closer integration with Russia and the impact of this process on Belarus growth led us to the conclusion that the … conclusion is supported by the results of country-specific growth regressions and of a counterfactual "free trade experiment" via …

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