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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations : Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven - 2014

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765950

Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020797

Evidence and Implications of Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies

Bowen, Harry P. - 2006

This paper considers the distribution of output and productive factors among members of a fully integrated economy (FIE). We demonstrate that each member's shares of total output and of total factors will be equal. This implies that growth in shares is random. If output and factor shares evolve...

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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...

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Mobile Tax Base as a Global Common

Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2007

If countries anticipate Bertrand competition in tax rates, they may expend effort that makes some of their tax payers less mobile or increases the mobility of tax payers elsewhere. I provide piecemeal evidence on what activities countries use. I analyse how such activities interact with Bertrand...

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Economic Growth in Africa : Comparing Recent Improvements with the 'Lost 1980s and Early 1990s' and Estimating New Growth Trends

Leibfritz, Willi - 2013

In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa's average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …

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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Pritchett, Lant - 2013

. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089159

Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries

Eggoh, Jude Comlanvi - 2014

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...

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