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member states and most euro countries. Since 1999, the euro countries have on average achieved more economic growth than … Germany and this increase in competitiveness can be largely attributed to wage moderation rather than productivity growth. The … to invest in order to reduce the deficit accumulated in recent years and also to ensure growth and prosperity in the long …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the cause and effect relationship between economic growth and savings in advanced … countries. -- savings ; economic growth ; co-integration …
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Wage inequality in Chile has remained high for decades and it is currently at the center of the political agenda. Increasing education of workers is expected to contribute to reduce wage inequality. Based on historical trends of age, education, and returns to education, this paper attempts to...
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Convergence across regional economies has spurred one of the most debatable issues in contemporary research in economics. In this paper we seek to address the question of whether, during the period 1995-2004 the NUTS-2 regions of EU-26 exhibited a tendency to converge in terms of agricultural...
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health) and output in a co-integration framework, taking growth of primary gross enrolment rate and a dummy for structural … years) and openness is found to have a significant effect on growth of per capita GNP. The Generalized Impulse Response … Function confirms that the innovation in per capita GNP growth can only explain the movements of the growth of per capita GNP …
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This study examines the relationship between economic growth as measured by GDP per capita and foreign direct … is a unidirectional Granger causation from foreign direct investment to economic growth. -- Granger causality ; vector … auto regression ; economic growth …
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Despite having accumulated physical and human capital at significant rates, Latin America's growth has been generally … disappointing. Successful growth episodes have been accompanied by surges in TFP, sound and stable macroeconomic policies, and fewer … growth performance of countries in Latin America. We find that, once controlled for external shocks and a measure of …
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Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant-level data on Chilean firms for years 1980 to 2001, we estimate the role of reforms on efficiency. We analyze aggregate productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the...
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This paper analyzes entry deterrence strategies at sequential multi-unit Englishtype repeated auctions, motivated by entry deterrence observed at a series of yearly auctions of fishing rights occurring since the early 1990s in the Chilean Sea Bass industrial fishery. It analyzes parametric...
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; economic growth …
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