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Economic growth In the long run
Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...
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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run
Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."
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Education, Rent-seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources.
Wadho, Waqar Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that natural resources breed corruption and reduce educational attainments, dampening economic growth. The theoretical literature has treated these two channels separately, with natural resources affecting growth either through human capital or corruption. In this...
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
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Immigration and the Growing Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor …
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Stock markets and economic growth in oil exporting countries: evidence from Kuwait.
Bentour, El Mostafa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the role played by the Kuwait stock market on the real sector. It uses useful steps and techniques to set up a regression based on the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model to answer whether there is an eventually positive effect of the stock market developments on the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130331
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The Role of ICT on the Spanish Productivity Slowdown
Mas, Matilde; Quesada, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special … notable inefficiencies, as identified by negative Total Factor Productivity (TFP) contributions to productivity growth during … resurgence of labour productivity in Spain over the 2000-2004 period. …
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Has New Zealand benefited from its investments in research & development?
Razzak, Weshah; Stillman, Steve; Johnson, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
&D has a statistically significant positive impact on own-industry output per person, suggesting it increases productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787232
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A Simple Accounting Framework for the Effect of Resource Misallocation on Aggregate Productivity
Aoki, Shuhei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
productivity. This framework is based on a multi-sector general equilibrium model with sector-specific frictions in the form of … functions. Moreover, this framework is consistent with that commonly used in productivity analysis. I apply this framework to … measure to what extent resource misallocation explains the differences in aggregate productivity across developed countries. I …
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Ücret Yapışkanlığı Hipotezi'nin Test Edilmesi: Türkiye'de Asgari Ücret ve Büyüme Üzerine Zaman Serileri Analizi (2005-2012)
KARGI, Bilal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Classical economics envisaged to reach the subsistence level of wages in the long term. Keynes, however, argued that it would be sticky downward wages with trade union activities. Since the 1930s, governments have begun to phase out the laws of the minimum wage to support employees' income...
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