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Stagnant wages, sectoral misallocation and slowing productivity growth
Schmöller, Michaela - 2019
that an upward shift in employment, triggered for instance by a labor market reform, is beneficial in the long-run as it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307862
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Is Dualism Still a Source of Convergence in Europe?
Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - 1998
This paper aims at assessing whether dualistic mechanisms represent a significant component of the aggregate labor productivity convergence observed across the European regions in the 1980s. The potential of an explanation of convergence based in part, at least, on the existence of dualism in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073863
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Estimating the Size and Growth of Unrecorded Economic Activity in Transition Countries : A Re-Evaluation of Electric Consumption Method Estimates and Their Implications
Feige, Edgar L.; Urban, Ivica - 2009
date, relied extensively on estimates of unrecorded income based on variants of the electric consumption method [ECM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029610
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The marriage market, labor supply and education choice
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, … - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498621
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291838
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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294574
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The New Growth Theories and Their Empirics after Twenty Years
Capolupo, Rosa - 2008
In this work we update the reviews on endogenous growth theories, after two decades of theoretical and empirical contributions in order to explore whether recent empirical studies have become more supportive of their main predictions. Among the core topics studied in the growth econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298563
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The New Growth Theories and Their Empirics after Twenty Years
Capolupo, Rosa - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-1, pp. 1-72
In this work the author updates the reviews on endogenous growth theories in order to explore whether recent empirical studies have become more supportive of their main predictions. Among the core topics studied in the growth econometric framework, namely convergence, identification of growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298621
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R&D expenditure in G7 countries and implications for endogenous fluctuations and growth
Wälde, Klaus; Woitek, Ulrich - 2003
The literature on endogenous growth cycles predicts countercyclical R&D expenditure. Aggregate R&D expenditure in G7 countries from 1973 to 1997 seems to be procyclical. Implications for future theoretical research are discussed.
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
Woerz, Julia - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325463