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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2010
GDP per capita and within-country income inequality in the world today. Indicators of early development such as early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213199
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159658
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Is skilled immigration always good for growth in the receiving economy?
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … economy’s human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or … growth depleting if the latter effect dominates. -- Skilled immigration ; growth …
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Is Skilled Immigration Always Good for Growth in the Receiving Economy?
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … economy's human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130025
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Secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015 - Revised Version: March 2015
This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492354
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Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026464
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Trading Population for Productivity : Theory and Evidence
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2008
This research argues that the differential effect of international trade on the demand for human capital across countries has been a major determinant of the distribution of income and population across the globe. In developed countries the gains from trade have been directed towards investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220825
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Chapter 3. Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2014
What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world … distances between populations, and document how such distances, relative to the world’s technological frontier, act as barriers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025608