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Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2002

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and …

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Skills, Technology and Growth : Is ICT the Key to Success?

Melka, Johanna - 2012

the way they intervene in explaining the labour productivity change in the period 1995-00. One of the reasons why France … share.In France, the contribution of ICT to the hourly labour productivity growth accelerated quite strongly over 1995 …-00 relative to the previous period. This acceleration was indeed accompanied by an acceleration in the total factor productivity …

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Human capital demand in Brazil: The effects of adjustment cost, economic growth, exports and imports

Dias, Joilson - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 1, pp. 76-92

The objective of this paper is to learn about the effects of the adjustment costs, economic growth, imports and exports on human capital labor demand. The dynamic model proposed by Sargent (1978) was adjusted to consider three types of human capital: (a) one with fundamental education (1–8...

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Labour Market Failure, Capital Accumulation, Growth and Poverty Dynamics in Partially Formalised Economies : Why Developing Countries’ Growth Patterns are Different

Loewenstein, Wilhelm - 2017

The assumption of perfectly functioning labour markets is ubiquitous in growth theory, yet incompatible with equally ubiquitous poverty in developing countries' informal sectors. We argue that developing countries and high-income countries differ as in the former, induced by informal sector...

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Planning Economic Growth : Los Angeles Coming of Age

Flaming, Daniel - 2016

There are at least three reasons why it has become important for Los Angeles to exert purposeful influence on its own economic trajectory: First, the population has grown steadily but the number of jobs in the formal economy, where employers comply with labor law, is still below the level of...

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The dragon down under : The regional labour market impact of growth in Chinese imports to Australia

Coelli, Michael Bernard; Maccarrone, James; Borland, Jeff - 2021

Imports of manufactured goods from China to Australia grew more than eleven-fold in real US dollar terms between 1991 and 2006. This study uses differences in industry structure between regions to identify the impact of that growth on labour market outcomes in Australia. Overall, the growth in...

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Sectoral Digital Intensity and GDP Growth After a Large Employment Shock : A Simple Extrapolation Exercise

Gallipoli, Giovanni; Makridis, Christos A. - 2020

mediate employment and productivity losses. We employ industry-level indices of task-based digital intensity and ability to …

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Child Labour and the Economic Recession of 1999 in Colombia

Umaña, Claudia Marcela - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between economic growth, household's income, child labour and school attendance in Colombia. It also analyses the impact of the economic recession of 1999 on child labour and education. An important contribution of this paper is the use of micro and macro...

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Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?

Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2021

Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The consensus view - that voters want better social insurance against income loss the more open the economy - is seemingly contested by the rise of populism and the China shock. We present...

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‘Make in India’ Strategy of Manufacturing Led Growth : A Comparison with the East Asian Model of Development with Emphasis on Human Capital Formation and Labour Market Flexibility

Kapoor, Neha - 2015

The structural transformation of the Indian economy from agriculture (primary sector) dominated to one led by the services sector (tertiary sector), bypassing the intermediate stage of manufacturing (secondary sector) led growth, offers an alternative to conventional theories of economic...

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