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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906282
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Does democracy foster trust?
Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328070
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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846988
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Local economic structure and industry development in Germany, 1993 - 2001
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between … Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and find very similar results for Germany. Afterwards we formulate an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452347
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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany … Germany, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019, i.e., they moved from … the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332122
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We already live in a degrowth world, and we do not like it
Naudé, Wim - 2023
The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...
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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523002
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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The effect of firm-level investment on inequality and poverty around the world
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Watson, Ethan D.; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...
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