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Population sorting and human capital accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2021
This article analyzes the effect of population sorting on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-region growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from the more advanced core into children’s human capital accumulation function in the periphery are...
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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …
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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
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International R&D spillovers and marginal social returns on R&D
Ogawa, Kazuo; Sterken, Elmer; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2016
Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …
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Ideas production and international knowledge spillovers : digging deeper into emerging countries
Luintel, Kul Bahadur; Khan, Mosahid - 2017
Research and Development (R&D) activities of emerging countries (EMEs) have increased considerably in recent years. Recent micro studies and anecdotal evidence points to industrialized countries as the sources of knowledge in EMEs. In this context, we examine ideas production and international...
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Market structure, technology spillovers, and persistence in productivity differentials
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2001
determinants of cross-country differences in the persistence of productivity differentials Specifically, we focus on the effects of … convergence rates. Consistent with theories, the persistence of productivity differentials is found to be positively correlated …, productivity convergence appears to be enhanced by human capital but deterred by government spending. …
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Euro area imbalances
Mink, Mark; Jacobs, Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2016
We argue that if currency union member states have different potential output per capita, output growth rates, or trade balances, the common monetary policy may not be optimal for all of them. Euro area imbalances for potential output and for trade balances are quite large, while output growth...
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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013
Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009785998
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Highways, market access, and spatial sorting
Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphaël; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2017
We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...
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Import competition and U.S. sentiment toward China
Arezki, Rabah; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024
We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...
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