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Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than...
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the recent literature. -- Growth ; structural change …
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We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the … massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that …
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We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...
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We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short … to heterogeneity in population growth, technical change or progressiveness of income taxes. Our estimated speed of …
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economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
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relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
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transition, even though considerable, are temporary rather than permanent. -- demographic transition ; optimal growth ; multiple …
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is more concave than that for the children's human capital, the only possible steady-state growth path involves full …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
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