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Assessing the returns to education in Georgia
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in...
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Output collapses and productivity destruction
Blyde, Juan S.; Daude, Christian; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - 2009
below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278252
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294525
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Health capital and the prenatal environment: The effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy
Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2009
We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292155
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The wage-productivity gap revisited: Is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that productivity growth affects the labour share in the long run due to … frictional growth (that is, the interplay of wage dynamics and productivity growth). In the light of this result, we consider a …
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Financial development and TFP growth: Cross-country and industry-level evidence
Arizala, Francisco; Cavallo, Eduardo; Galindo, Arturo - 2009
This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278217
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Words, deeds, and outcomes: A survey on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes
Harms, Philipp; Kretschmann, Marco - 2007
Recent studies on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes offer a wide range of different, sometimes contradictory results. In this paper, we systematically compare three prominent contributions in this field. Using a common data set, a common specification, and common estimation methods, we...
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Are crises good for long-term growth? The role of political institutions
Cavallo, Alberto F.; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2008
opportunities to enhance long-term output per capita and productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278293
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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality
Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2008
GDP per capita and within-country income inequality in the world today. Indicators of early development such as early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284078