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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224593
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543634
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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
and economic growth. Developing countries on the other hand, especially countries in Asia are in the process of shifting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345543
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Demographic determinants of savings : estimating and interpreting the aggregate association in Asia
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2005
Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The … fertility which changes the age compositions and could thereby account for savings and growth in Asia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002592079
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Rebalancing growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879333
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Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?
Langot, François (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
"Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375229
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Immigration, unemployment and growth in the host country : bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis on OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310912
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Australia: the miracle economy
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
Most of the countries of the OECD are still suffering from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) (or as the Americans call it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774315
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Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries
Keller, Katarina (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003296132