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businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …
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effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … on GDP per capita of policies transiting through capital deepening can be considerably larger than the 5- to 10-year … impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter …
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) compared to GDP, particularly given that while the latter is currently used as the basis for the OECD Economics Department … findings are that there are indeed a number of structural policies where the long-run effects on GDP and AHDI are … power of labour (for example a loosening of EPL), have weaker long-run positive effects on AHDI than GDP. Other structural …
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A growing recent literature relies on a precautionary pricing motive embedded in representative agent DSGE models with sticky prices and wages to generate negative output effects of uncertainty shocks. We assess whether this theoretical model channel is consistent with the data. Building a New...
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Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
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Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … factor of 2.5. Furthermore, we provide evidence of positive spillovers in nearby municipalities. To estimate the tourism …
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regularity conditions and assuming a Cobb Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long run … money balances, inflation, real exchange rate, oil exports, and foreign real output, the paper finds clear evidence for two … acting as a proxy for the (missing) market interest rate. Real output in the long run is shaped by oil exports through their …
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Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...
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