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We use the theory of rationalizable choices to study the survival and the extinction of types (or traits) in …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
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Growth models with endogenous mortality assume generally that life expectancy is increasing with output per capita, and …
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This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...
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This paper provides evidence of a change in the relationship between individual satisfaction with the state of country's economy and income inequality during transition from a command to market economic system. Using data from a series of extensive and frequent surveys of Polish population, we...
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Undervaluation of the currency is generally believed to affect growth through two main transmission channels: the … "capital accumulation channel" and the "total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel". This paper carries out the first … empirical investigation on the TFP growth channel. More specifically, we provide answers to the three following questions: Does …
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between skilled labor and unskilled labor wages. The question we ask is how the growth process shapes the wage inequality and … on the set of steady states and find that this relations hip is ambiguous. Finally, we develop an endogenous-growth … version of the model. In this version of the model the relationship between inequality and the rate of growth is also …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … (France, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom), growth positively causes immigration, whereas in any country, immigration … does not cause growth. …
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This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries … develop several arguments to show that institutional quality modulates the intensity of FDI impact on growth. Using a … threshold of institutional quality that influence the FDI growth effect. These results have significant implications for policy …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … (France, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom), growth positively causes immigration, whereas in any country, immigration … does not cause growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899889