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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

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Henrekson, Magnus; Jonung, Lars; Stymne, Joakim - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1994

productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential "ultimate" causes behind the slowdown are explored. An increasingly …

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Rapoport, Hillel; Harnoss, Johann - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

The diversity of people has economic costs and benefits. Using recent immigration data from 195 countries, we propose an index of diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is decomposed into a "size" (share of foreign born) and a "variety" (diversity of immigrants) component and is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603517

ICT and Productivity Growth in Transition Economies: Two-Phase Convergence and Structural Reforms

Piatkowski, Marcin; Bart, van Ark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although … investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to …

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Human capital and macroeconomic growth: Austria and Germany 1960 - 1997. An update

Koman, Reinhard; Marin, Dalia - 1999

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in per-capita income levels and growth rates is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence

Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012

This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...

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Understanding Economic Growth in the Caribbean Region: A Conceptual and Methodological Study

Fuentes, J. Rodrigo; Melgarejo, Karl; Mercer-Blackman, … - 2015

A renewed interest in explaining growth in the Caribbean countries is motivated by the somewhat slow but uneven performance in the past decade: per capita GDP gaps in Caribbean countries have widened in relation to the United States, whereas standard theories would predict convergence. This...

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Lights, camera...income!: Estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014

In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...

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Study on quality of public finances in support of growth in the mediterranean partner countries of the EU

De Wulf, Luc; Coutinho, Leonor; Sassanpour, Cyrus; … - 2010

Until the early 1990s, the discussions on fiscal policy primarily centered on the functions of economic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy was often not sufficiently tailored to the different...

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