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, thus, endogenous. Conditioning on factor accumu- lation in growth regressions that also include endogenous policy variables … may then be problematic. When policy is endogenous the measured ef- fects of policy on growth will generally be biased …- cal viewpoint. The paper argues that regressing growth on policy may still yield important information if policy …
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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level … have been doubts about the contribution of TFP improvements to growth. For the period between 1978 and 1998, Young (2003 …
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
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We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these … long run growth rates, and; (ii) any policies that can raise national growth rates must be international in scope. The … results therefore have bleak implications for the ability of countries to affect their long run growth rates. …
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Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require …
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We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … growth. We find that mobile services contribute much more to growth but that the effect diminishes as the provincial economy …
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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … income data from the Luxembourg Income Study suggests that there is a negative relationship between growth and income …
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This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …
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