in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the … existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest in society … benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

Does a country?s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on … the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …

paper focuses on economic growth and investigates empirically the influence of age variables on growth. Unlike other recent …. Estimations of a typical growth specification, augmented with age variables and other, more volatile, economic variables, are … carried out, and results from these regressions seem to indicate that economic growth is indeed affected by the age …

importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the …-filtering. Using this tool, we then reconsider the evidence on convergence across regional economies in the US. …