in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the … between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …

fostering belonging and uniqueness at work and factor 2 'Challenge and Openness' captures being open to challenge and being … Openness' is positively related to all work outcomes studied including income. This link to productivity is intuitive for …

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

that this will lead to a dynamic factor model with the dominant unit acting as the factor. The problems of estimation and …