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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Wang, Jing - 2012

This paper focuses on the contribution to recent narrowing of the gap between Northern and Southern economies in GDP/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three currently largest rapidly growing Southern...

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The Knowledge Trap : Human Capital and Development Reconsidered

Jones, Benjamin F. - 2014

This paper presents a model where human capital differences - rather than technology differences - can explain several central phenomena in the world economy. The results follow from the educational choices of workers, who decide not just how long to train, but also how broadly. A quot;knowledge...

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local...

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Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century

Hanlon, William Walker - 2015

Mortality was extremely high in the industrial cities of the 19th century, but little is known about the role played by pollution in generating this pattern, due largely to a lack of direct pollution measures. I overcome this problem by combining data on the local composition of industries in...

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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan

Tomiura, Eiichi - 2021

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input-output linkages, our regressions detect the...

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Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography : Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987

Kim, Sukkoo - 2022

This paper estimates the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit U.S." manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987. As predicted by the standard" general equilibrium theory of interregional trade, the regression estimates show that a consistent" set of factor...

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EU Accession and Foreign Owned Firms in Bulgaria

Feliciano, Zadia - 2016

Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …

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