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's comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well … Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China …
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's comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well … Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076650
economies in an interdependent world. Unified growth theory suggests that the transition from stagnation to growth is an …
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in total factor productivity (TFP), but the sources of TFP differences are not well understood. This paper considers the … parameterization, my model shows that conventional TFP measures overestimate fundamental productivity differences by 30%. I then show …
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transition that has occurred in the developed world over the past 150 years. To the extent that high growth rates in the past … implications for the prospects of human and physical capital accumulation, the evolution of productivity and the question of …
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as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …
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as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …
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known as international unbundling of production. We consider a world economy where countries only differ in their … productivity and consume final good varieties from all country origins. Each variety is produced using a bundle of intermediate … this change in inequality is U-shaped in the productivity of the country. The reason is that high-productivity countries …
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The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime- is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...
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In recent decades, the international division of labor expanded rapidly in course of globalization. In this context, highly developed countries specialized on (human) capital intensively manufactured goods and increasingly sourced parts and components from lowwage countries. Since this should be...
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