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Why is Growth Better in the United States than in Other Industrial Countries
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2017
Although the official statistics imply that the rate of growth of real GDP in the United States has declined in recent years, it has still been substantially higher than the real growth rates in Europe and the other industrial countries, leading to higher real per capita incomes. This paper...
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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...
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An Exploration of the International Comparison Program's New Global Economic Landscape
Ravallion, Martin - 2014
dramatic revisions to price levels and real incomes across the world. The paper tries to understand these changes. Domestic …
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Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?
Bordo, Michael D.; Eichengreen, Barry; Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …
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Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets
Bordo, Michael D.; Murshid, Antu Panini - 2021
of both advanced and emerging countries during two periods of globalization -- the pre-World War I classical gold … the two eras of globalization reflects factors such as strong cross-country interdependence fostered through links to gold …
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Covid-19 and Global Income Inequality
Deaton, Angus - 2021
There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...
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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective
Stabile, Mark - 2013
This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021
-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237594
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2021
Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
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