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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...
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Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation …
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We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
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We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It …
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We present a multi-country theory of economic growth and R&D-driven technological progress in which countries are … countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including …
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