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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859600
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892254
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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266002
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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012
production networks. In the 1970-80´s, South Asia stagnated due to its inward-oriented growth strategy and lack of infrastructure … connectivity-resulting in low trade integration and regional connectivity within the region and with Southeast and East Asia …. However, since 1991, South Asia, particularly India has adopted a Look East policy and opened its market raising huge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282051
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Public Spending and Government Performance in Europe and Asia : Tigers Today and in the Future
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2022
Asia. Public spending and performance patterns differ hugely across countries. Asian “tigers” and some advanced countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296721
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Growing apart?: a tale of two republics: Estonia and Georgia
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2007
We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Estonia and Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264255
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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin - 2008
Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264296
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[Sigma]: the long and short of it
Chirinko, Robert S. - 2008
Research on the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor - ó - has been proceeding for 75 years. While there is clearly a strong case for the importance of ó in the analysis of growth and other economic issues, much less agreement exists on the value of ó. This paper offers some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264314
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Cyclical fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth
Badinger, Harald - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004. Identification of the effects of (endogenous) cyclical fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264336
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Economic growth and subjective well-being: reassessing the Easterlin paradox
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2008
The Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264434