We examine Okun's Law on the basis of new growth perspectives and in the context of the WWWForEurope project. By comparing Okun's work from 1962 with the latest IMF and OECD surveys, a connection is set up and Okun's theoretical framework is updated and its persistence is examined. In addition,...

We build China’s national production function based on national accounting data since 1997, when China primarily transformed from the Planned economy to Market. By proxying and measuring stocks of human capital(HC), physical capital and the efficiency units, as well as government expenditure...

Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....

This paper asks whether the level of integration of world countries in the international network of temporary human mobility can explain differences in their per-capita income and labor productivity. We disentangle the role played by global country centrality in the network from traditional...