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Education, openness and economic growth in India: evidence from cointegration analysis

Pradhan, Rudra P. - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 2 (2011) 2, pp. 103-112

openness. However, it does not find any significant causality between education and openness. The findings of the paper suggest …

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Sectoral analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and economic growth in Nigeria

Ayadi, Folorunso S. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 3 (2010) 4, pp. 327-340

Economic rationale for granting special incentives for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is based on the belief that FDI bridges the 'idea gaps' between rich and the poor. Empirical literature however finds controversial, the effects of FDI on productivity growth. This paper contributes...

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Openness, Wage Gaps and Unions in Chile: A Micro Econometric Analysis

Friedman, Jorge; Mulder, Nanno; Faúndez, Sebastián; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2011

This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the …

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Skill Premium in Chile: Studying Skill Upgrading in the South

Gallego, Francisco - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2010

The evolution of the skill premium (i.e., the wage di erential between skilled and unskilled workers) has interest from at least two perspectives: it is a rough measure of inequality among workers of di erent quali cations and provides information on the characteristics of the development...

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Trade with central and eastern Europe: Is it really a threat to wages in the west?

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - European Central Bank - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing …

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Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2008

investment share, initial human capital, trade openness, the national income share of natural resource exports and population …

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Exchange-Rate Pass Through, Openness, and the Sacrifice Ratio

Daniels, Joseph P; VanHoose, David D - Department of Economics, College of Business Administration - 2010

-output trade-off and suggests that the ultimate effect of openness on the output-inflation relationship is influenced by a variety … effect of openness on the sacrifice ratio. We develop a simple theoretical model showing how both the extent of pass through … and openness can interact to influence the output-inflation relationship. Next we empirically explore the nature of these …

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An Analysis of the Openness of the Web2.0 Service Network Based on Two Sets of Indices for Measuring the Impact of Service Ownership

Kim, Kibae; Altmann, Jorn; Hwang, Junseok - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010

(i.e., providers, developers, consumers) to combine their services. The prerequisite for this collaboration is openness … order to measure how much the Web2.0 service network is socially open, we use six openness indices, which are based on ….0 services do not leverage the openness provided by the technology. Instead, they prefer using Web2.0 services of those providers …

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Institution and Development Revisited:A Nonparametric Approach

Basu, Sudip Ranjan - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2008

The paper uses nonparametric methodology to examine the role of institutions in understanding differential levels of development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the impact of institutions on development. The...

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Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Australian Foreign Direct Investment

Sharma, Kishor; Bandara, Yapa - In: Journal of Economic Issues 44 (2010) 3, pp. 661-676

The aim of this paper is to present empirical evidence of the determinants of Australian foreign direct investment using hypotheses drawn from an investment demand model, new trade theory and institutional economics. The findings suggest that countries which are open, have a large domestic...

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