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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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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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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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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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This study uses 1971-2013 panel data to explore the implications of growth, wealth disparities and energy consumption …-run interactions among the series analyzed. Contrastingly, it also shows that economic growth, income inequalities and energy … taking up other expenditure programs for the poor. Moreover, the Indian government should emphasize on an energy …
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The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...
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This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …
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This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. The evidence and the analysis are provided at a time when the pandemic is still in progress. The...
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. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding …
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developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings …
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