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This paper examines conditional convergence of OECD countries in gross domestic product (GDP) and health care … economic growth and the speed of convergence. The speed of convergence is found to be sensitive to whether one imposes a … constant or estimate the depreciation and technological growth components. With no restrictions imposed the convergence rate is …
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susceptible to asymmetric shocks. Inflation is in the process of converging in EAC, but the speed of convergence is slow. Time is …
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This paper deals with a dynamic adjustment process in which adjustment of a key variable input (labor) towards its desired level is modeled in a panel data context. The partial adjustment type model is extended to incorporate firm- and time-specific adjustment parameter. A flexible (translog)...
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This paper examines conditional convergence of OECD countries in gross domestic product (GDP) and health care … economic growth and the speed of convergence. The speed of convergence is found to be sensitive to whether one imposes a … constant or estimate the depreciation and technological growth components. With no restrictions imposed the convergence rate is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190886
We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...
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This paper investigates the convergence behaviour of carbon dioxide emissions for 39 countries in the Americas from … 1960-2016. A linear regression test of convergence which looks for conditional sigma convergence is employed, and a … clustering algorithm is used to identify convergence clubs. The results show evidence of convergence in the region for the long …
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The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include … economic benefits, globalization also indicates the flow of ideas, norms, information and peoples. There is a large …
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This study investigates the relationship between globalization and income inequality by developing a new globalization … index based on economic growth. In addition two other indices of globalization, non-parametric Kearney and parametric … composite forms. The main feature of this approach is that the estimation of globalization index and the examination of its …
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This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine … and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalization and show how … globalization has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration …
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, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model …
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