. Finally, while effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of inflation is … skilled or not working. Our findings reinforce the political importance of employment and growth policies. …

and sanitation. Building on previous evidence on urban concentration and economic growth, in this paper we analyse … urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … urban concentration (something that previous studies on urban concentration and economic growth have not considered …

territories. The Post-Fordist economy in Europe has led to agglomerations of economic activity and urban growth while other … city planners have to deal with both the regulation of urban growth and the planning and management of urban decline … linked to socio-spatial and economic growth. Using theories on uneven urban development and the case studies of Bitterfeld …

We analyze the effectiveness of an increase in government consumption for stimulating growth for diverse levels of … public debt in the European Union. We conclude, that growth rate can be stimulated in the short run by an increase in … more effective than an increase in compensation of public employees in stimulating output growth. …

We show that the effects of inflation on growth change substantially as the inflation rate rises. Moreover the … inflation first begins to seriously negatively affect growth is around 8% for industrial economies but 3% or less for developing … countries. Marginal growth costs for developing countries then decline significantly above 50% inflation. Failure to account for …

family environment. This paper presents a theory of growth in which human capital is determined by inheritable factors and … fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … converge to a balanced growth path where the average transmission of human capital from parents to childern determines the long …

in 1992. To examine the dynamics of the growth and subsequent reduction in government spending, we present a dynamic … GDP - but eventually diverge from output due to the growth of the welfare state. After government expenditures become … large, we identify an endogenous threshold on the economy's growth path where it is optimal for politicians to shrink the …

This paper analyzes the intertemporal variation of trust on economic growth. Constructing a unique global country panel … trust and growth.3 Only a minority of global economies can attain a position close to or above the optimum threshold for … trust and growth. Most economies, in fact, fall well below that threshold, and for them, it is incumbent to consider trust …