generates a comparative disadvantage for this country in team production. Trade exacerbates the 'polarization' of the more …

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha …

Abstract This paper examines the effect of vertical diversity in workers' skill on the long-run growth rate of an …&D sector is submodular. By adopting Grossman and Maggi's (2000) model to a framework of growth, it shows first that diversity … that if vertical diversity is sufficiently high relative to the communication gap, the growth rate may not increase with …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary … variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and …

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha …