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Wages, human capital, and structural transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold; Schoellman, Todd - 2017

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen …

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Financial development and sectoral output growth in 19th century Germany

Diekmann, Katharina; Westermann, Frank - 2010

, transportation and agriculture. In this regard, the growth patterns in 19th century Germany are reminiscent to those in today …

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Real wage chronologies

Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor); … - 2007

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Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies

Fisher, Eric O'Neill - 2010

Rethinking the foundations of Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies, this paper shows how to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix that computes the local factor content of foreign...

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Investment in relationship-specific assets : does finance matter?

Strieborny, Martin; Kukenova, Madina - 2011

Existing literature sees opportunistic behaviour of contractual partners as the main reason why rational agents underinvest in relationship-specific assets. We look beyond this well-know holdup problem and argue that financial vulnerability and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such...

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EU enlargement: economic implications for countries and industries

Lejour, Arjan - 2001

This paper explores the economic consequences of the enlargement of the European Union with countries from Central and Eastern Europe. We focus on integration aspects that go beyond the reduction of formal trade barriers, namely accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. The...

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Mining matters : natural resource extraction and local business constraints

Haas, Ralph de; Poelhekke, Steven - 2016

We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...

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Tacit collusion under imperfect monitoring in the Canadian manufacturing industry : an empirical study

Resende, Marcelo; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - 2011

The paper undertakes a cross-sectoral analysis of a salient empirical implication of the model of tacit collusion advanced by Abreu et al (1986). Specifically, the prevalence of a first order Markovian process for alternating between price wars and collusive periods is assessed by means of...

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Innovation network

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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