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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...
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Regional human capital in Republican and New China: Its spread, quality and effects on economic growth
Van Leeuwen, Bas; van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli; Foldvari, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
less efficient. However, so far this question is difficult to analyse for China since we lack information on one of the … the provinces of China between 1922 and 2010. Using our new dataset, together with physical capital and per capita GDP …, whereas until the reform period China was largely driven by capital accumulation, afterwards general technical development got …
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Comparative analysis of Brazil’s national and regional economic structure, 1985, 1990, 1995
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Crocomo, Francisco C.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The changes that are taking place recently in the Brazilian economy raise some questions about its future. The goal of this paper is to analyze the differences in the productive structure in the Brazilian economy and five macro regions for the years of 1985, 1990, and 1995, using some...
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The regional economic structure of Brazil in 1959: an overview based on an inter-State input-output system
Barros, Gustavo; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil’s productive structure through the estimation of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an important tool for the study of the regional productive...
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Education and labour productivity in New Zealand
Razzak, Weshah; Timmins, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We estimate the effect of four types of education qualifications, as a proxy for human capital and skill levels, on GDP per capita, and compute the average percentage returns. We also test the effect of the product of each proxy of human capital with R&D on GDP per capita. We find that only...
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Explaining the gaps in labour productivity in some developed countries
Razzak, Weshah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Modern economic theories explain differences in productivity and economic growth across countries by differences in political and economic institutions, and differences in culture, geographical location, policies, and laws. The success of any of these theories in explaining the gap in...
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Unorganised Manufacturing Industry in the Era of Globalization: A Study of Punjab
Singh, Lakhwinder; Jain, Varinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The recent developments in the theory of industrial organisation have underlined the importance of small scale industry. Small industry can be equally competitive in the fast changing global economy provided it exploits economies of scale and scope while locating itself in clusters along with...
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Baumol and the post-industrial trilemma: examining the relationship between productivity, prices and wages
Lewis, Paul; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
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The development labour intensive industry in ASEAN countries: an overview
Amjad (edited), Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1981
The overview analyses the results of the country studies undertaken by the ILO’s Asian Employment Programme with the aim of contributing to the evolution of a policy framework for labour intensive development for ASEAN. These country study results are examined in the context of the...
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