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Exploring OECD SDGs Pilot City's 50-Year Time Series Data and Its Environmental Kuznets Curves
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019
Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...
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Education and democratic preferences
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009
This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …
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Rule-based monetary policy under central bank learning
Aoki, Kosuke; Nikolov, Kalin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning aboutthe parameter values of a simple New Keynesian model. The three policies are: (1) the optimal non-inertial rule; (2)the optimal history-dependent rule; (3) the optimal price-level...
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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.
Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...
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Intercultural Training Requirements for Virtual Assignments:Results of an Explorative Empirical Study
Holtbrügge, Dirk; Schillo, Katrin - Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut <Nürnberg> / … - 2007
Virtual assignments are characterized by the spatial separation of private and business life.The virtual delegate lives and interacts in one culture, yet he or she works together mainlywith people from another culture. While the virtual assignee is physically located in theheadquarters, from an...
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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Changes in the Recruitment and Education of the Power Elites in Twentieth Century Western Democracies
Brezis, Elise S.; Crouzet, François - 2002
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment and training of elites and economic development. We show that there was a key shift at the turn of the nineteenth century in the way the Western world trained...
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...
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The impact of inflation targeting on unemployment in developing and emerging economies
Divino, Jose Angelo - 2009
Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing literature on the issue, it is not clear whether developing and emerging countries can improve their economic performance by adopting inflation targeting. This working paper...
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