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Brain drain and LDCs' growth : winners and losers
Beine, Michel (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221543
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Can the UAE avoid the oil curse by economic diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to … suggested. The analysis shows that greater efforts are needed to stimulate the diversification of the production base by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252644
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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics
Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2018
This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958935
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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289903
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Paradox lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450390
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The Easterlin paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372750
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Remittances, institutions and economic growth
Catrinescu, Natalia; León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; Piracha, … - 2006
There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased enormously over the last decade, academic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323170
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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
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Happiness and economic growth : does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
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