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Earnings Inequality and Central-City Development
Mills, Edwin S. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999
resulting from new technology. These risingreturns have meant that the relative earnings of someof the best educated, and thus … indicate that theearnings of low-income and historically disadvantagedworkers rose faster in 1997 and 1998 than those of …
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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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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …
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Financial development, globalization, and structural transformation in developing countries
Avoumatsodo, Komla - 2023
Rodrik (2016) pointed out that late industrializing countries are experiencing a lower peak at lower income levels in …
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Jamaica: preparing for the twenty-first century ; papers from Jamaica 30 Anniversary Symposium, 6 - 7 October 1992, Kingston, Jamaica
Lewis, Patsy (contributor) - 1994 - 1. publ
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Long-term barriers to economic development
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2014
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Long-term barriers to economic development
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197997
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Long-term barriers to economic development
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202918
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Ciencia y tecnología : claves para reducir el condicionamiento externo
Faroppa, Luis A. - In: Quantum : revista de la Facultad de Ciencias … 1 (1993) 1, pp. 9-23
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Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...
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