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Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy
Asali, Muhammad; Gurashvili, Rusudan - 2019
, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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The Deep Roots of Economic Development in the U.S. States
Murphy, Ryan - 2017
There is a large and growing economics literature that seeks to explain how modern economic development and cross-country income differentials are the result of ancient historic, cultural, genetic, or other factors, whose effects persist in the modern world (Spolaore and Wacziarg 2013). Referred...
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Secular Stagnation on the Supply Side : U.S. Productivity Growth in the Long Run
Gordon, Robert J. - 2016
Secular stagnation refers not to the literal stagnation, i.e., stopping of economic growth but rather to the slowing of U.S. potential real GDP growth to half or less of its historical pace. The retardation of potential real GDP growth matters both because of its direct impact on the standard of...
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Rent appropriation and sustained growth
Robinson, James A. - 1993
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Rental prices, rates of return, capital aggregation and productivity : evidence from EU and US
Erumban, Abdul Azeez - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 54 (2008) 3, pp. 499-533
With the increasing importance of investment in information and communication technology, methods for measuring the contribution of capital to growth have re-assumed centre-stage in recent growth accounting literature. The importance of using capital service growth rates rather than capital...
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over time and across countries, are made using a...
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All types of inequality are not created equal : divergent impacts of inequality on economic growth
Seguino, Stephanie (contributor) - 2005
Evidence of an increase in various forms of inequality since the 1970s has motivated research on its relationship to growth and development. The findings of that research are contradictory and inconclusive. One source of these divergent results is that researchers rely on different group...
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over time and across countries, are made using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379598
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Immigration in Europe : trends, policies and empirical evidence
Rica, Sara de la; Glitz, Albrecht; Ortega, Francesc - 2013
This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in various important European destination countries and...
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Immigration and Economic Growth
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
As the 2012 presidential campaign gets under way, there will be intense public debate about the direction of economic policy. The continuing torpor of the U.S. economy and mounting government debt oblige candidates to detail how they would improve prospects for economic growth and reduce the...
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