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Economic Growth, Technological Progress, and Social Capital: The Inverted U Hypothesis
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2011
We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496155
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Economic growth, technological progress, and social capital : the inverted u hypothesis
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2011
We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524856
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Economic growth in the Potterian economy
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010
We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434312
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The fragility of social capital
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2009
This paper addresses two hot topics of the contemporary debate, social capital and economic growth. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on decisive but so far neglected issues: how does social capital accumulate over time? Which is the relationship between social capital, technical progress and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766485
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Economic Growth, Technological Progress, and Social Capital: The Inverted U Hypothesis
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011
We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002319
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On the macroeconomics of corruption
Azariadēs, Kōstas; Ioannides, Yannis M. - In: Indian economic review : official journal of Delhi … 58 (2023), pp. 105-147
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The contested concept of growth imperatives : technology and the fear of stagnation
Richters, Oliver; Siemoneit, Andreas - 2018
technology is often based on a violation of the meritocratic principle. The resulting dilemma between "technological unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929217
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Unemployment, growth and speed of transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189833
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Okun in the euro : new evidence from structural Okun law’s estimates for the euro area, 1979-2019
Campos, Nauro; Macchiarelli, Corrado; Mitropoulos, Fotios - 2024
This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …
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Okun's Law and long term co-integration analysis for OECD Countries (1987 - 2012)
Kargi, Bilal - 2014
, it is known that there is a reverse relation between unemployment and growth known as Okun's Law. This relation …, suggesting that every 1 point decrease in unemployment induces a 3 point increase in growth, is tested for many countries. In … difference in coefficients. At the same time, long term relation between growth and unemployment is tested with the use of time …
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