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The relationship between GDP and the size of the informal economy : empirical evidence for Spain
Duarte, Pablo - 2014
The empirical evidence on the linkage of the informal economy and GDP is ambiguous. It depends on the method used to estimate the size of the informal economy. I propose a common factor of four different approximations of the size of the informal economy as an alternative. Using Spain as an...
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Income Distribution and Structural Transformation : Empirical Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Dastidar, Ananya - 2012
The process of structural transformation forms the very basis of economic growth and development. This paper analyses the implications of alternate patterns of structural change for changes in the overall distribution of income within an economy. An empirical analysis is carried out based on...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Values and norms matter : on the basic determinants of long-run economic development
Voigt, Stefan; Park, Sang-Min - 2008
; Culture ; Social Capital ; Civil Society ; Economic Development ; Total Factor Productivity …
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Does technological growth-induced migration lead to income convergence? The case of India’s early 2000s telecom boom
Dutta, Arnab; Randolph, Gregory - 2022
This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...
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Human capital and economic activity in urban America
Abel, Jaison R. (contributor); Gabe, Todd M. (contributor) - 2008
important determinants of economic vitality. -- Human capital ; knowledge ; new economy ; productivity …
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The Effect of Durable Goods and ICT on Euro Area Productivity Growth?
Jalava, Jukka - 2008
and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …
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Human Capital and Economic Activity in Urban America
Abel, Jaison R. - 2014
We examine the relationship between human capital and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas, extending the literature in two ways. First, we utilize new data on metropolitan area GDP to measure economic activity. Results show that a one-percentage-point increase in the proportion of...
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National IQ and National Productivity : The Hive Mind Across Asia
Jones, Garett - 2011
A recent line of research demonstrates that cognitive skills - intelligence quotient scores, math skills, and the like - have only a modest influence on individual wages, but are strongly correlated with national outcomes. Is this largely due to human capital spillovers? This paper argues that...
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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
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