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Andrieu, Elodie; Morrow, John - 2024

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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium … theoretical model according to which negative spillovers occur whenever a negative scale effect dominates a positive substitution …

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Economic growth through worker reallocation : the role of knowledge spillovers

Mäkynen, Eero - 2021

An establishment can improve its productivity by hiring workers from more productive establishments. Then, how important is worker reallocation for aggregate productivity growth? To study this question, I develop a general equilibrium model where knowledge transmits as workers reallocate from...

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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019

There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...

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Education and economic growth

Valero, Anna - 2021

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...

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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...

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Growth and the quality of foreign direct investment : is all FDI equal?

Alfaro, Laura (contributor); Charlton, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

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Financial integration and the global effects of China's growth surge

Tyers, Rodney; Zhou, Yixiao - 2019

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