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Some middle-income economies, many of which Latin American, have not achieved to make the transition into high-income status for long years and are allegedly trapped in middle-income status. While there is considerable consensus on the proximate causes of this phenomenon, we present a global...
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Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …
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This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error-correction methodology. Two channels are analyzed, by which human capital is expected to influence growth. A better-educated labor force appears to have a positive and...
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This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala during 1951-2002 using an error-correction methodology. The results show a better-educated labor force having a positive and significant impact on economic growth. Consistent with micro studies for Guatemala,...
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investments in information and communication technology (ICT) affect the productivity of firms, sectors, and economies. This study … ICT and productivity. The sample covers 2960 Polish innovative manufacturing firms. The research uses Generalized … moderating effect on the link between ICT and labour productivity in the sample firms. …
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We build upon an already known but scarcely developed feature of growth theory: the importance of asset distribution in an aggregate production function. We elaborate on a simple model of two individuals, and then generalize its deductions to an extended model of n agents, concluding that...
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against external shocks. He presents results from vector auto regressive (VAR) models that indicate that Chile and Colombia …
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This paper discusses the measurement of ex-ante inequality of opportunity for binary outcome variables. We argue that … the use of scale but not translation invariant inequality measures such as the dissimilarity index might be problematic …
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