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capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
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pollution intensity. Countries' growth rates are determined endogenously, and abatement efficiency is improved by technical …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
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The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … ICT investment and economic growth in the period 1985-99 for a sample of 42 countries for which ICT spending data are … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …
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A two-sector real business cycle model, estimated with postwar U.S. data, identifies shocks to the levels and growth … rates of total factor productivity in distinct consumption- and investmentgoods- producing technologies. This model … attributes most of the productivity slowdown of the 1970s to the consumption-goods sector; it suggests that a slowdown in the …
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independent parts. The demand dynamics is first analysed through a growth-accounting decomposition, then through the long term … understanding of the supply-side growth dynamics, privileging a trade perspective: the definition of comparative advantages and the …
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Since the mid-1990s, Italy's economic growth faltered, primarily due to sluggish productivity growth. This article … growth-enhancing reforms in these areas. The simulations show that structural reforms could boost productivity and GDP growth … investigates the root causes of the slow growth. Firstly, it benchmarks Italy over time vis-à-vis euro area and OECD countries in …
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I estimate a Solow model augmented with human capital in 42 countries for 1910-2000. Estimated TFP growth is 0.3%/year …, and the steady-state rate for GDP/capita is 1.0% year. Implicitly for high-income countries maintaining growth above this …
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productivity is both an input of the growth process, influencing macroeconomic dynamics, and a consequence of growth, because …-Keynesian cumulative growth model driven by the dynamic interaction between the demand regime and the productivity regime. The model …In the Structuralist-Keynesian approach, economic growth is a cumulative causation process driven by a continuous …
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sectoral transformation, and labour productivity growth in the EU in several new dimensions. First, based on the latest data …, we document the size of the negative effect that structural change has exerted onto productivity growth over long time … structural change may have on future productivity growth. This model generates structural change through both price and income …
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