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Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Europe - Past, Present and Future
Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021
This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211112
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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348090
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261270
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Economic Inequality and COVID-19 Death Rates in the First Wave, a Cross-Country Analysis
Davies, James B. - 2021
poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237221
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245624
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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? Theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288473
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892099
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Richer or More Numerous or Both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla - 2019
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892200
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A New Ricardian Model of Trade, Growth and Inequality
Marjit, Sugata - 2021
The classical Wage Fund (Capital or Credit) framework is integrated with the simplest text-book version of the Ricardian model of comparative advantage, generating a model that replicates important features of the neo-classical production theory involving capital and labour without neo-classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314959
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How Economic Growth Impinges on Income Inequalities?
Alves, José; Coelho, Jose Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022
Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264446