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Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Gries, Thomas - 2020

The economic impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) is studied using a (semi) endogenous growth model with two novel features. First, the task approach from labor economics is reformulated and integrated into a growth model. Second, the standard representative household assumption is rejected, so...

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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...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - 2021

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...

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Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara - 2018

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …

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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Greif, Avner - 2013

Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development

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Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data

Akyol, Pelin; Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners … employed—supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence only for women who live in what they call …

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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...

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Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata

Ramos, Raul - 2012

for Colombia. The Colombian case is particularly interesting in this regard due to the structural changes suffered by the …

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Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries : The Colombian Case

García Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo - 2013

individual characteristics or because they learn from one another's behaviour.Using data from Colombia in 2009 we explore how … observed is due to different characteristics between the two groups. Colombia presents persistent high levels of informality …

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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo A. - 2015

-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to …

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