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Can policies affect employment intensity of growth? : a cross-country analysis
Crivelli, Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; Toujas-Bernaté, Joël - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621620
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Is Schumpeter Right? Fintech and Economic Growth
Cevik, Serhan - 2024
The rise of fintech is revolutionizing the financial landscape, with products and companies advancing innovative technologies to improve and automate financial services. In this paper, I use a novel dataset and implement a dynamic modelling to investigate the relationship between fintech and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058710
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Advancing India’s Structural Transformation and Catch-up to the Technology Frontier
Alonso, Cristian - 2024
progress in agriculture, but also in construction and trade, which have grown the most in terms of employment. We do find some … consider India’s employment challenge going forward. We find that India needs to create between 143-324 million jobs by 2050 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015080244
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Trade in Low Carbon Technologies: The Role of Climate and Trade Policies
Pienknagura, Samuel - 2024
Curbing carbon emissions to meet the targets set in the Paris Agreement requires the deployment of low carbon technologies (LCTs) at a global scale. This paper assesses the role of climate and trade policies in fostering LCT diffusion through trade. Leveraging a comprehensive database of climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058542
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Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2008
We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409050
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Tax composition and growth : a broad cross-country perspective
Acosta-Ormaechea, Santiago; Yoo, Jiae - 2012
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659768
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Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter.
Becker, Törbjörn I - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. MOTIVATION AND RELATED STUDIES -- II. OUTPUT DROPS -- III. SHOCKS -- IV. MULTIVARIATE PROBIT ANALYSIS -- V. ROBUSTNESS AND EXTENSIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX TABLES AND FIGURES -- APPENDIX I. HODRICK-PRESCOTT-FILTER BASED DEFINITION OF EVENTS -- APPENDIX II. KERNEL...
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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse
Alichi, Ali - 2009
The paper provides an alternative explanation for the ""resource curse"" based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies. Using a simple life cycle framework, we show that private investment in the non-resource sector is adversely affected if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677783
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Development Aid and Economic Growth
Reddy, Sanjay - 2009
We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677788
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Tourism Specialization and Economic Development
Piotrowski, John M. - 2009
UNESCO World Heritage List. We find that there is a positive relationship between the extent of tourism specialization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677835