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Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...
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Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth
Gries, Thomas - 2020
The economic impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) is studied using a (semi) endogenous growth model with two novel features. First, the task approach from labor economics is reformulated and integrated into a growth model. Second, the standard representative household assumption is rejected, so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825010
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Left-Handedness and Economic Development
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2022
This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...
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Divergence in Labour Force Growth : Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas - 2020
the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners … of an extended model which encompasses offshoring to emerging countries and labour market imperfections suggest that (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826760
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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Naudé, Wim - 2017
Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades … welfare state, as well as through offshoring and reduced fixed capital investment of the corporate sector. The outcome was … rising income and wealth inequalities. Between the mid-1990s and 2010 the rise in wage inequality was faster in Germany than …
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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The effect of trade policy
Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2016
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng - 2010
International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...
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Carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth : an assessment based on production and consumption emission inventories
Fernández-Amador, Octavio; Francois, Joseph F.; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637317