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Bloom, David E.; Brender, Adi - 2021

This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but … the industrial economies, but not in world income inequality as the income gap between the industrial and developing …

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088673

Democracy, Technology, and Growth

Aghion, Philippe - 2010

We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that democracy influences productivity growth in different...

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Does the Aids Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

Bloom, David E.; Mahal, Ajay S. - 2021

This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...

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Political Instability and Economic Growth

Alesina, Alberto F.; Ozler, Sule; Roubini, Nouriel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and per capita GDP growth in a sample of 113 countries for the period 1950-1982. We define ?political instability? as the propensity of a government collapse, and we estimate a model in which political instability and...

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Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment

Alesina, Alberto F.; Perotti, Roberto - 2021

This paper successfully tests on a sample of 70 countries for the period 1960-85 the following hypotheses. Income inequality, by fueling social discontent, increases socio-political instability. The latter, by creating uncertainty in the politico-economic environment, reduces investment. As a...

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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021

examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia … of the developing world …

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Fractionalization

Alesina, Alberto F.; Easterly, William; Devleeschauwer, … - 2021

We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously used. We also revisit the question of the...

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The Wealth of Nations : Fundamental Forces Versus Poverty Traps

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying …

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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021

Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...

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