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The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico
Davis, Steven J. - 2005
Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …
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The Wealth of Working Nations
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Ventura, Gustavo; Yao, Wen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Due to population aging, GDP growth per capita and GDP growth per working-age adult have become quite different among many advanced economies over the last several decades. Countries whose GDP growth per capita performance has been lackluster, like Japan, have done surprisingly well in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437045
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Work and Play : International Evidence of Gender Equality in Employment and Sports
Klein, Michael W. - 2002
's Soccer World Cup and to do well in that competition. This effect of relative labor force participation rates on athletic …
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US-Europe Differences in Technology-Driven Growth : Quantifying the Role of Education
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
European economic growth has been weak, compared to the US, since the 80s. In previous work (Krueger and Kumar, 2003), we argued that the European focus on specialized, vocational education might have been effective during the 60s and 70s, but resulted in a growth gap relative to the US during...
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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2019
Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th Century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th Century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
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Understanding Creativity
Galenson, David W. - 2010
Research done to date has demonstrated that artistic innovators can usefully be divided into two types. Experimental innovators seek to record their perceptions. They proceed tentatively, by trial and error, building their skills gradually, and making their greatest contributions late in their...
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Democracy, Technology, and Growth
Aghion, Philippe - 2007
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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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2005
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467376
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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth
Bloom, David E. - 2002
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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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition
Bloom, David E. - 2001
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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