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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021942
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility : A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316935
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian - 2017
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960276
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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing
Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2022
investments in education quality are needed for better enabling green technological innovation and adaptation and reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084050
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine - 2014
1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068037
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 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...
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of … development. Consistently with the theory, the empirical analysis establishes that (i) geographical isolation prevalent in pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110861
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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2014
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042967