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Changes in China's Wage Structure
Ge, Suqin - 2012
Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
in the South, the relationship between trade and growth, competition and Ramp;D, and the role of imperfect capital …
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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Naudé, Wim - 2017
stagnation. Improving the impact of technological innovations on labor productivity growth will require a more diversified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941243
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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector
Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015
both trade and foreign direct investment and thereby get a better understanding of complex international investment, trade … and FDI dynamics – including with respect to the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023751
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy : Alternative Representations of Technological Change
Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...
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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2006
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a longrun stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction
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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
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Marketmaking Middlemen
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2016
other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984835
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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