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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015

This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...

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Migration for Economic Growth : Strategic Approaches. Russia's Case

Korovkin, Vladimir - 2018

labor and human capital from the perspective of economic growth (demand) and organic demography (supply)? • Are there pools …

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Demographics and automation

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2018

We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers — is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …

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Artificial Intelligence and the discovery of new ideas : is an economic growth explosion imminent?

Almeida, Derick; Naudé, Wim; Sequeira, Tiago Neves - 2024

Theory predicts that global economic growth will stagnate and even come to an end due to slower and eventually negative growth in population. It has been claimed, however, that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may counter this and even cause an economic growth explosion. In this paper, we critically...

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SME Contributions to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth in the Arab World

Nasr, Sahar - 2013

Recent economic and political developments have highlighted a challenge shared across the Arab region of generating employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in the developing economies of the Middle East and...

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Demographic dividend, digital innovation, and economic growth : Bangladesh experience

Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz; Sarker, Tapan - 2021

This study aims to understand the linkages between demographic dividends, digital innovation, and economic growth, using Bangladesh as a case study. It adopts a three-stage least squares (3SLS) model to explore how and to what extent the digitization and demographic transition lead towards...

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The macroeconomic consequences of artificial intelligence : a theoretical framework

Huang, Xu; Hu, Yan; Dong, Zhiqiang - 2019

The authors explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy by improving the neoclassical production function and the task-based model. Based on the capital accumulation of artificial intelligence and technological progress, they present a theoretical model that explores the effect...

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The impact of COVID-19 and its policy responses on local economy and health conditions

Gungoraydinoglu, Ali; Öztekin, Ilke; Öztekin, Özde - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-27

US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy responses on local economic and health conditions, with the goal to shed light on marginal health benefits and economic costs associated with social distancing. We find that...

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Impact of digitalisation on economic growth, productivity and employment

Arsić, Milojko - In: Ekonomske teme 58 (2020) 4, pp. 431-457

of jobs. In case of long-term massiv e unemployment, there is also an option for introduction of universal basi c income …

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Demographic Transition in the Middle East; Implications for Growth, Employment, and Housing

Bhattacharya, Rina; Yousef, Tarik; Dhonte, Pierre - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

The working age population is expected to grow faster in the Middle East than in any other region in the world between now and 2015—rising annually by 2.7 percent, or 10 million people. This demographic explosion presents the region with a major challenge in terms of providing jobs, incomes,...

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