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On the Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Productivity Differences Across Countries

Erosa, Andres - 2012

We develop a quantitative theory of human capital with heterogeneous agents in order to assess the sources of cross … capital technology. We then assess the model's ability to explain the cross-country data. Our quantitative model generates a … amplified through physical and human capital accumulation to generate a factor of 20 difference in output per worker --- as …

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Sectoral Decomposition of Convergence in Labor Productivity : A Re-Examination from a New Dataset

Dieppe, Alistair; Matsuoka, Hideaki - 2022

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to β-convergence, using a newly constructed eight-sector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...

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Sectoral decomposition of convergence in labor productivity : a re-examination from a new dataset

Dieppe, Alistair; Matsuoka, Hideaki - 2022

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to β-convergence, using a newly constructed eightsector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...

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The democratic transition : a study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index

Paldam, Martin (contributor); Gundlach, Erich (contributor) - 2008

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most countries change from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. This is shown by using the...

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International remittances and income inequality : an empirical investigation

Koechlin, Valerie (contributor); … - 2006

The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on the relationship between international remittances and income inequality. In simple cross-country regressions we find a non-monotonic link between these two variables when using ordinary least squares, instrumental...

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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions : causality and the roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...

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Income tax flattening : does it help to reduce the shadow economy?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...

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Global reform of personal income taxation, 1981 - 2005 : evidence from 189 countries

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Buttrick, Steve; Duncan, Denvil - 2009

In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using complete national income tax schedules, we calculate actual average and marginal tax rates at...

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...

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