labour migration cost between regions of the US magnifies the impact improved labour markets have on regional convergence …. Finally, I estimate the influence of structural change on convergence between Canadian regions. I construct a unique dataset … convergence is primarily due to region-specific factors with structural change playing little role. …

literature dealing with child labor. The economic theory of child labor can be roughly subdivided into the economic theory of … child labor in closed and open economies respectively. Summed up, the literature on the normative theory of child labor in … skilled labor which would lower the wage rate of the ruling skilled elite. The implication of the economic theory of child …

apprenticeships, whichwould allow better relationship between theory and practice. …

, not increase, household income inequality. In a related vein, this research study seeks to test the theory of an extended … the theory that growth and inequality might both be related to SBTC resulting from structural shifts away from a mature … industrial economy and toward the emerging information and knowledge economy of the 1990s and beyond. This theory, too, must be …

kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …

sample of 89 countries is analyzed using data collected from the World Development Indicators (WDI), Penn World Table, Barro … and Lee (2010), and Polity IV Project datasets. The empirical analysis shows that conditional convergence occurs among the … countries in the sample and that FDI net inflows per worker slightly increases the speed of conditional convergence. This study …

The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved … institutional characteristics of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"), which may be contributing to, or inhibiting escape from, the … international economic system. Part II will overview the world trading system's need for a cooperative international mechanism or …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … series in the Penn World Tables (1950-2000), and to Maddison's historical series (1870-2000). Overall, the results do not …