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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
capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531693
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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265664
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E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance
Amer-Mestre, Josep; Ayarza-Astigarraga, Alaitz; Lopes, … - 2021
We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school … less e-learning tools than higher performing ones. These two findings suggest that the COVID-19 shock widened the e-learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882480
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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763825
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329186
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262346
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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848
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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481579
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Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988 - 2008: Evidence from quantile analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2012
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291330
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884338