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This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
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The authors examine the relative importance of the growth of physical and human capital and the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) using newly organized data on 145 countries that span more than one hundred years for twenty-four of these countries. For all countries, only 3 percent of...
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This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT-intensive industries experienced significantly larger...
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A core prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory is that countries specialize in goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and that the source of comparative advantage is differences in relative factor supplies. To examine this theory, we use the most extensive data set available and...
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By taking firm heterogeneity in productivity into account in a monopolistic competition market in a general-equilibrium model setting, this paper investigates whether a stricter local content requirements (LCRs) can increase both productivity and production in the domestic intermediate-goods...
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in Ireland. The research applied a Policy Delphi Method to a heterogeneous expert panel. Results: The findings indicate … that the current sustainable freight transport policy measures in Ireland are limited, and the paper suggests 38 measures … decarbonisation measures in Ireland should first formulate on the decarbonisation stages "avoid" and "shift", and then move to the …
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Agricultural cooperation is seen as a way to solve collective action problems and has been associated with high social capital and other beneficial impacts in the countryside beyond productivity increases. But what if it comes into conflict with existing private concerns? The Irish dairy...
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likely to be poor in adulthood. In this report, we focus on child poverty on the island of Ireland. While child poverty in …. In both Ireland and the UK, children have had the highest income poverty rates of all age groups over the past ten years … relatively stable in Ireland over the 2000s when measured by household income. However, rates of child material deprivation rose …
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In this paper we evaluate the distributional impact of carbon pricing in Ireland via a number of different measures …
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Ireland developed one of the world's most intensive railroad networks in the second half of the 19th century. However … high-resolution geospatial data for nearly 3,400 districts to existing road and waterway networks as well as Ireland …
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