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Can the UAE avoid the oil curse by economic diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
factor productivity, GDP volatility, negative returns on investment, and a labor force that is too reliant on government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252644
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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Does diploma type matter for subsequent academic achievement? : a UAE case study
Kherfi, Samer; Naufal, George - 2014
We examine how selected high school characteristics - including type of diploma - contribute to students' academic success in an American-type university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We find no robust evidence that US, UK, and UAE systems of high school diploma produce different outcomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408875
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Testing for repugnance in economic transactions : evidence from guest work in the Gulf
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737492
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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?
Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019
manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978455
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Africa's industrialization prospects : a fresh look
Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023
-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249268
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Political economy of industrialization and industrial parks in Ethiopia
Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023
This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013498899
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second … aircraft and crew on an existing route). Thus we propose to measure innovation as the additional GDP over and above the … addition existing physical capital and labour. In our measure this is the contribution to GDP growth of market sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075
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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing 1860 - 1930 using immigration shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307890
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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
concerned, African countries will in differing degrees experience three varieties of industrialization, all influenced by new … services now perform functions previously expected from manufacturing. A third variety of future industrialization is labelled … "resurgent entrepreneurship-lead industrialization" denoting that some African countries will take part in new and advanced types …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122074