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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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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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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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Economic and employment growth in Germany : the sectoral elements of Verdoorn's Law with regional data

Oelgemöller, Jens - 2013

A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true at the sectoral level. For this reason, the German labor...

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

Dias, Joilson - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 1, pp. 76-92

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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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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