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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China

Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a...

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Regional convergence in Russia : estimating a neoclassical growth model

Lehmann, Hartmut; Oščepkov, Aleksej Ju.; Silvagni, … - 2020

In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...

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Income convergence and the flow out of poverty in India, 1994 - 2005

Quiroga, Paola Andrea Barrientos; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - 2015

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...

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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable … to regional wage differentials in India at both the state and district level. …

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Revisiting cross-country poverty convergence in the developing world with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouyang, Yusi; Shimeles, Abebe; Thorbecke, Erik - 2018

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...

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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...

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Regionalism in West Africa: do polar countries reap the benefits? : A role for migration

Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005

In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...

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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap

Vivarelli, Marco - 2014

This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...

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On the multivariate analysis of the "Lisbon process"

Tausch, Arno (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor); … - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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Women legislators and economic performance

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

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