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Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which … constrained the opportunities of innovative firms for equity-based growth and the incentives for academic brains to set up in …
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Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding … rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly … interpreted as technology shocks. I estimate different types of technology shocks from structural VARs and reassess the empirical …
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This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in industries characterised by a distribution that is more...
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neoclassical growth model. …
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A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is …
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Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The question we address is whether climatic conditions as measured by distance from the equator remain correlated with labor productivity after other variables are...
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In diesem Arbeitspapier wird die Hypothese untersucht, dass die gesamtwirtschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit unter dem Einfluss demographischer und bildungspolitischer Faktoren steht. Als erstes wird ein Überblick über die Entwicklung des Qualifikationsangebots und der Arbeitsproduktivität in...
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factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to … for both growth and inequality. Calibrated TFP growth is consistent with the results from nonparametric growth accounting … more problems to modelling inequality than with growth: in particular, the main models in the literature, which take skill …
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correlation to growth when their magnitudes shrank. It is argued that more aid can impair the quality of domestic policies in the …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the size of government and economic growth in OECD countries in 1960 …?2000. The underlying idea is that government expenditures on public goods basically have a positive effect on growth, but this … growth effect tends to decline or even reverse when government is overdoing, e.g. by increasing expenditures in such a way …
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