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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766677
This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … called endogenous, and those grounded in reasons more exogenous to economic growth. The behavior of economic growth following … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …
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This paper presents a small macroeconomic model describing the main mechanisms of the process of credit creation by the private banking system. The model is composed of a core unit - where the dynamics of income, credit, and aggregate demand are determined - and a set of sectoral accounts that...
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656607
-run effects of capital markets integration, in equilibrium, on the optimal provision of education and growth. Third, we examine a …
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immigration in Europe. Can refugee immigration promote long-term per-capita growth? How are the drivers of per …-capita growth in the host country and that the growth is higher if immigrants are relatively young and have sufficiently high … qualifications. Further, capital inflowsare a prerequisite for boosting per-capita growth. These findings can inform the migration …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … (France, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom), growth positively causes immigration, whereas in any country, immigration … does not cause growth. …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877796
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885187