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), labour demand and migration patterns. The adoption of new technologies might change the demand for labour in various ways … labour demand function. This is followed by an analysis of push and pull factors of bilateral migration that focuses on the …
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This paper presents an endogenous growth model of migration and technological diffusion with transitional dynamics …-biased technological change (SBTC), which first occurs in the destination, raises the relative return to high skill migration and thus the … bilateral migration data from 31 destinations and 195 origins is shown to support this hypothesis, with the average income of …
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This paper addresses the question of sectoral specialisation mechanisms and effects on growth rate differences providing an alternative approach to endogenous growth processes. The framework we choose draws on the Kaldorian cumulative causation approach to growth and the evolutionary modelling...
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The paper integrates two mechanisms of economic growth, barriers to international spillovers and skill - biased effects on the income distribution. South Africa is an interestin g case study because of dramatic changes in international barriers over time and policy focus to productivity and...
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This paper addresses the question of sectoral specialisation mechanisms and effects on growth rate differences providing an alternative approach to endogenous growth processes. The framework we choose draws on the Kaldorian cumulative causation approach to growth and the evolutionary modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003209500
In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income differences. At the same time, integration with countries where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729668
In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income differences. At the same time, integration with countries where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012735885
In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration will systematically shift technical change in favor of rich nations. For this reason, free trade can increase international income dierences. At the same time, integration with countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074757
This paper answers the following two questions: 1) In the data, can we find a dilution effect of population growth also on per-capita human capital investment? If yes, 2) how can we use this fact to explain theoretically the existence of a differential impact of population change on economic...
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
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