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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Reassessing the Contributions of African American Inventors to the Golden Age of Innovation
Andrews, Michael; Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2021
During the Industrial Revolution and subsequently, it is widely believed that African Americans contributed disproportionately little to the economic development of the United States, especially in comparison to European Americans and immigrants from Europe. Yet, African Americans lived in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233091
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408972
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2021
When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320636
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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
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Assessing the institutions-innovation channel within the inequality-growth nexus
Sun, Yang; Easaw, Joshy Z.; Logothetis, Vassilis - 2023
The present paper assesses the interactions between innovation and economic institutions within the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014434530
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Assessing the institutions-innovation channel within the inequality-growth nexus
Sun, Yang; Easaw, Joshy Z.; Logothetis, Vassilis - 2023
The present paper assesses the interactions between innovation and economic institutions within the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480456
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Innovation and Top Income Inequality
Aghion, Philippe - 2015
innovation. We first establish a positive and significant correlation between various measures of innovativeness and top income … in the top 1% income share between 1975 and 2010. Finally, we show that innovation does not increase broader measures of … inequality which do not focus on top incomes, and that innovation is positively correlated with social mobility, but less so in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021154
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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy: another look at the economics of marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly sell legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271277