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Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries

Keller, Katarina (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...

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Financial development and economic growth : evidence from ten new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2014

This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...

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Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy

Asali, Muhammad; Gurashvili, Rusudan - 2019

Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Immigration, unemployment and growth in the host country : bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis on OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2011

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for...

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Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous heturns to education : evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James J. (contributor); Li, Xuesong (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Rates of return to university education : the regression discontinuity design

Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - 2010

biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 … and thereafter. -- Rate of return to education ; regression discontinuity design ; China …

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Who wins and who loses from state subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay …

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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

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Diasporas and conflict

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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