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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...

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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Austria

Dauth, Wolfgang; Hujer, Reinhard; Wolf, Katja - 2010

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM...

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What drives productivity growth in the new EU member states? The case of Poland

Kolasa, Marcin - 2005

This paper considers productivity developments in the new EU member states and provides evidence on factors driving productivity growth in these countries, focusing on a panel of Polish manufacturing industries. Companies in Poland seem to benefit significantly from transfer of technologies that...

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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000

Weiss, Yoram; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...

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Bank Efficiency and Regional Growth in Europe : New Evidence from Micro-Data

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2017

This paper examines whether European regions which incorporate banks with a higher intermediation quality grow faster and are more resilient to negative shocks than its less efficient peers. For this purpose, we measure a bank's intermediation quality by estimating its profit and cost efficiency...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000...

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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations

Messina, Julián - 2003

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, economy-wide barriers to entry...

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Violent conflict and inequality

Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...

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Dynamic ethnic fractionalization and economic growth in the transition economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro F.; Saleh, Ahmad; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - 2009

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...

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