country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …

the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third … countries, rather than for its international clients, and on the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), which emphasizes … significant costs of investment. Using a new detailed data set of non-stationary sector-level outward FDI, this paper finds that …

threshold effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the relationship between growth and inequality by applying the standard … significantly influenced by a single threshold in FDI: for FDIi>ô, economic growth and inequality can have an inverse relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …

"relocation" mobility of firms leads to increasing "net" tax revenues under fairly weak conditions. While enhanced relocation … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling … for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence … the black box and conditioning the variance of growth shocks on several country characteristics. Natural resource …

corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource … exports are no longer significant while the value of subsoil assets has a significant positive effect on growth. But the World … longer significant. However, the same evidence suggests that resource exports or rents boost growth in stable countries, but …

and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and …