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This paper constructs a two-country model to investigate how tariff policy influences productivity growth through adjustments in industry location patterns. The locations of production and innovation are determined based on trade barriers and imperfect knowledge dissemination. Tariff policy has...
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An establishment can improve its productivity by hiring workers from more productive establishments. Then, how important is worker reallocation for aggregate productivity growth? To study this question, I develop a general equilibrium model where knowledge transmits as workers reallocate from...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between endogenous growth and unemployment. It provides knowledge diffusion as the link between innovation-based growth through creative destruction and the labor market outcome. Three dimensions of knowledge are considered: human capital (general skills),...
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Real convergence is an essential objective of Romania’s integration into the EU. Bridging the development gaps between … divergence and polarization. For this purpose, special tools and mechanisms are required; e.g., cohesion. The study deals with … the economic convergence of the European countries, and especially the convergence of the CEE countries, including Romania …
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Real convergence is an essential objective of Romania’s integration into the EU. Bridging the development gaps between … divergence and polarization. For this purpose, special tools and mechanisms are required; e.g., cohesion. The study deals with … the economic convergence of the European countries, and especially the convergence of the CEE countries, including Romania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005612206
key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
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Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or …
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Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global … spillovers favour convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of …
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The paper examines the interactions between economic integration and population agglomeration in a middle product … final good is non-traded, whereas the intermediate goods are traded. We find that employment agglomeration and output growth …
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The Paper examines the interactions between economic integration and population agglomeration in a middle product … the final good is non-traded, whereas the intermediate goods are traded. We find that employment agglomeration and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792002