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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

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R & D sector outsourcing, human capital formation and growth in the context of developed versus developing economies

Basu, Sujata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

An advanced economy relies on innovation activity for its further technology improvement. On the other hand a backward … economy depends on both imitation from the world technology frontier and innovation activities - innovation being more skilled … innovation-only regime to an imitation-innovation regime. I show that dependence on imitation activities rises and as a …

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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000

Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...

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Human Capital, Urbanization, and Canadian Provincial Growth

Coulombe, Serge - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2001

This paper investigates the conditional convergence of both human capital indicators and nominal per capita income across Canadian provinces in a panel-data empirical framework. Long-run relative provincial steady states are determined by relative rates of urbanization, onetime shocks to...

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Migration Selectivity and the Evolution of Spatial Inequality

Kanbur, Ravi; Rapoport, Hillel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2004

The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across locations and will, ceteris paribus, serve to reduce those differentials. And yet the evidence on growing spatial inequality is clear, despite increased migration from poorer to...

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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

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Intangible Assets and Intellectual Capital as Key Factors of Romania’s Convergence

Suciu, Marta Cristina - Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE), … - 2009

competitiveness. * Study within the CEEX Programme – Project No. 220/2006 “Economic Convergence and Role of Knowledge in Relation to …

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Productivity, Hours Worked, and Tax/Benefit Systems in Europe and Beyond

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries and other OECD countries in 1960-2004. We emphasise the possible effects of taxes, benefits and other labour-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and...

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Éducation, croissance et convergence : analyse au sein d'un modèle à générations imbriquées

Fabre, Alice - In: Revue d'économie politique 111 (2001) 5, pp. 765-783

This paper provides an overlapping generations model with both physical and human capital, in order to study the link between heterogeneity and growth. The study stresses out the flexibility of the OLG model to analyse the mutual dependence between the human capital distribution and the dynamics...

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Душевой ВВП и производительность труда в России: было ли догоняющее развитие?

Zaytsev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Using Russian data, it is showт that different assessment techniques of cathing-up development lead to opposite conclusions: according to current PPPs we have seen the cathing-up in per capita GDP during 1990-2012 period, but according to constant PPPs – we have not. It is argued that current...

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