On the question of whether aid stimulates GDP growth, the profession provides inconclusive and often contradictory findings. While waiting for a stronger consensus, this paper analyzes the direct effect of aid on other non-monetary dimensions of development. I construct an index of social and...

This paper outlines how regional labour market adjustments to macro-economic and policy shocks are modelled in RHOMOLO through participation, employment and migration decisions of workers. RHOMOLO, being a multi-sectoral, inter-regional general equilibrium model, is complex both in terms of its...

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training.  In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...

This study estimates the impact of income remittances on poverty rates by estimating household income under the counter-factual scenario that migration does not occur. Estimation of the counter-factual is performed at the national level, as well as across two separate sub-national groupings of...

In this paper we investigate empirically the relationship between globalization and human development in post-transition countries using annual panel data for the 1971-2010 period. We show that there exists a positive and statistically sig-nificant relationship between globalization and human...

The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalization in the enlarged EU. Adopting a structural NEG approach, we attempt to asses the direction, size and dynamics of potential labor migration after the end of the 'transitional measures', which are restricting the relocation of workers....

The present paper focuses on a presentation of four pillars of knowledge, occurring as the sources of competitive advantage for knowledge-based economies, and on the construction of taxonomic measure for assessing competitiveness’ degree of 29 this type economies in 2000-2010. To build this...

Hans-Werner Sinn zeigt die ökonomischen Effekte der Migration und diskutiert die Frage, ob man die Migration so steuern sollte, dass sie zur Stabilisierung und zum Nutzen der bereits ansässigen Bevölkerung beiträgt.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a large-scale government initiative (NPEGEL/KGBV) that provided earmarked funds for addressing girls' special needs to public schools in rural India. Our empirical strategy exploits local variation in program eligibility around a threshold based on the...

In 1960 Theodore Schultz expounded a human capital theory of economic growth that includes three elements: 1) Countries without much human capital cannot manage physical capital effectively, 2) Economic growth can only proceed if physical capital and human capital rise together, and 3) Human...