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We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth

Corrado, Carol A. - 2014

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...

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Rising Wages : Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage?

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China

Lipschitz, Leslie - 2008

We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...

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The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes : Evidence from US Coastal Counties

Strobl, Eric - 2021

We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

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Convergence in Emerging Europe

Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 2008

The emerging European economies have been converging rapidly towards the more advanced European economies in recent years. However, large external imbalances in parts of the region have raised questions about sustainability and concerns about vulnerabilities. Empirical evidence in this paper...

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Global Liquidity, Risk Premiums and Growth Opportunities

De Nicoló, Gianni - 2009

This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging market countries, documents their evolution and comovements, and assesses the extent to which such measures are determinants of selected spreads and proxy measures of countries'...

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