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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces : a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323158
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941555
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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly : an analysis based on a collective consumption model
Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2008
poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652712
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Determinants of poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …. -- Poverty ; Transition ; survey ; Ukraine … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646700
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Temporary labour migration and welfare at the new European fringe : a comparison of five Eastern European countries
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2009
and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ … incidence of poverty. This finding remains robust when attempting to reduce the potential omitted variable bias with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832067
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Retirement responses to a generous pension reform : evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. -- Labor … many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper uses a natural experiment from Ukraine to estimate the causal effect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937880
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The economic growth impact of hurricanes : evidence from US coastal counties
Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2008
We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744490
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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Regional economic growth and human capital : the role of overeducation
Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi; Artís Ortuño, … - 2009
The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the recent economic performance of European regions is associated with an increase in overeducation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901216
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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474137