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Unraveling the role of public researcher mobility for industrial innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - 2011
1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306331
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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382705
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The origins of the division of labor in pre-modern times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868780
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Demographic transitions across time and space
Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2022
The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime- is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646693
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On the pro-trade effects of immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2012
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features - the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants ('super-diversity'),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548838
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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption
Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2013
We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683008
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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
positively to economic development (as measured by income and TFP per capita and patent intensity) even after controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124
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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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