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The economic impact of immigration in Greece : taking stock of the existing evidence
Cholezas, Ioannis (contributor);  … - 2008
Greece was traditionally an emigration country. However, since the early 1990s it became an immigrant destination and … to integrate the immigrants in the economic and social fabric of the country. -- Immigration ; Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762176
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Growing out of the crisis : hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With … an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an …-membership. Instead, Greece exports only its nation's talent, with low returns. To become prosperous, the country must better capitalize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128350
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Mass refugee inflow and long-run prosperity : lessons from the Greek population resettlement
Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018
.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within … thousand Greek municipalities that existed in Greece in 1920. Exploiting the spatial variation in the resettlement location, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874817
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Two to tangle : financial development, political instability and economic growth in Argentina (1896 - 2000)
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Karanasos, Menelaos (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762132
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008
provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726795
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Wage returns to university disciplines in Greece : are Greek higher education degrees Trojan horses?
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of …. -- Academic disciplines ; wage returns ; higher education ; Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900572
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The distributional impact of in kind public benefits in European countries
Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920201
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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution : a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931306