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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030884
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short … to heterogeneity in population growth, technical change or progressiveness of income taxes. Our estimated speed of …
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We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short … to heterogeneity in population growth, technical change or progressiveness of income taxes. Our estimated speed of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274608
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481589
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show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred … empirical analysis of economic growth. …
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economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
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The demographic transition is introduced into the otherwise standard Ramsey model to generate multiple equilibria, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions under which multiplicity is realized. Three cases arise,...
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