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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality
Putterman, Louis G.; Weil, David N. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003775894
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Post-1500 population flows and the long-run determinants of economic growth and inequality
Putterman, Louis G.; Weil, David N. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 125 (2010) 4, pp. 1627-1682
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309121
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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality
Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2008
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/10010284078
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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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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people … uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity. Our main result is that the diversity of skilled immigration relates … gravity model to predict the share and diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124
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Growth effects of 19th century mass migrations : "Fome Zero" for Brazil
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg; Botelho, Tarcísio - 2011
. With new data on selective immigration during the era of mass migrations at the end of the 19th century, we show that human … our estimations, the effect of selective immigration on real GDP per capita in the year 2000 is significant and equals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355520
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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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Technological change and inequality in the very long run
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020
In this paper we investigate the impact of technological change on inequalityin the presence of a landed elite using a standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset of the fertility transition, technological progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012204880
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Technological Change and Inequality in the Very Long Run
Madsen, Jakob - 2020
In this paper we investigate the impact of technological change on inequality in the presence of a landed elite using a standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset of the fertility transition, technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836171
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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012
In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and unprecedented rates. The present paper develops a simple...
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