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Robots at work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503975
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Are ideas getting harder to find?
Bloom, Nicholas; Jones, Charles I.; Van Reenen, John; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737751
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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve
Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015
Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
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Assignment reversals : trade, skill allocation and wage inequality
Sampson, Thomas - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412059
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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene - 2001
the input factors and workplace reorganization. The estimation results show that changes in human resources practices do … observable firm heterogeneity are larger if workplace reorganization is realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation … realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation technique to demonstrate that the entire labor productivity distribution …
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The economic impact of universities : evidence from across the globe
Valero, Anna; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529690
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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
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Does uncertainty reduce growth? : using disasters as natural experiments
Baker, Scott; Bloom, Nicholas - 2013
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Inflation and growth : new evidence from a dynamic panel threshold analysis
Kremer, Stephanie; Bick, Alexander; Nautz, Dieter - 2009
We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For industrialized countries, our results confirm the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876000
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Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth
Kerekes, Monika - 2009
Acknowledging the fact that the growth experience of countries is seldom well described by the average growth rate, this paper aims at identifying countries that are similar in terms of their growth process, thus emphasizing the dynamics of growth rates. To that end, the growth experience of...
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