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.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with …
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contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America … numeracy as measured by the age-heaping strategy for long-run economic growth. In a variety of specifications, numeracy … mattered quite strongly for growth patterns around the globe. …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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In this paper, whether there is a convergence of per capita incomes across Turkish provinces during 2004-2014 period is examined following the availability of per capita incomes of Turkish provinces for this period as of December 2016. Considering that firms and households of different regions...
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This study articulates the interaction between institutional governance, education and economic growth. Given the … analyze the main mechanisms by which the macroeconomic impact of education on growth (and economic development) occurs. Our … growth. The first channel highlights direct positive effect of educational quality on the incentive to accumulate human …
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We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co-integration approach.We extend previous studies in two respects: first, we compile a more extensive data set for 61 countries over 26-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and...
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plurilateral agreement's spatial dimension. Chapter 2 provides a gravity analysis of international migration flows to investigate … on the physical intensity of natural disasters. Chapter 3 zooms in on the local growth effects of natural disasters and …
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