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The impact of temporary migration on human capital accumulation and economie development

Domingues Dos Santos, Manon; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - In: Brussels Economic Review 47 (2004) 1, pp. 77-88

(which is harmful for development), and second, it facilitates the diffusion of knowledge (which encourages growth). We are …

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Who is afraid of the brain drain? Human capital flight and growth in developing countries

Rapoport, Hillel - In: Brussels Economic Review 47 (2004) 1, pp. 89-101

remittances, return migration, and the role of migrants' networks in promoting bilateral trade and knowledge diffusion. …

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L'économie de l'éducation fait-elle des progrès? Une perspective d'histoire de la pensée économique

De Meulemeester, Jean Luc - In: Brussels Economic Review 50 (2007) 1, pp. 89-111

In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relative to education and human capital and try to assess whether progress has been made or not. If the main intuitions regarding the link between education and the economy were already present at the...

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Productivity, Hours Worked, and Tax/Benefit Systems in Europe and Beyond

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries and other OECD countries in 1960-2004. We emphasise the possible effects of taxes, benefits and other labour-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and...

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Age, Technology and Labour Costs

Daveri, Francesco; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

Is the process of workforce aging a burden or a blessing for the firm? Our paper seeks to answer this question by providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries (forest, industrial machinery and electronics) in...

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Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence

Fry, Julie - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2014

New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may be significantly positive, with at worst small negative effects. However, both large positive and large negative effects are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of...

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The Importance of Labour Mobility for Spillovers across Industries

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

knowledge is then diffused within the new environment creating spillovers and leading to productivity improvements. A … theoretical framework is presented wherein productivity growth is modelled through knowledge acquisition with respect to labour … mobility. The empirical estimates confirm the existence of positive cross-sectoral knowledge spillovers and indicate that …

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A nonparametric approach to the decomposition of labor productivity in regional manufacturing

Chávez, Juan Carlos; Ornelas, Luis Fernando López - Banco de México - 2013

This study decomposes both the labor productivity gap and the labor productivity growth into the contributions of technical efficiency, capital deepening and technological change for Mexican manufacturing at the regional level. In order to do so, we apply a methodology that combines two...

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Are Net FDI Flows and Reversals of Capital Flows a Result of Output Growth?

Aharonovitz, Gilad; Miller, James - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2008

Literature notes many factors as affecting capital flows, but the effects of these flows over the recipient economies and the overall effect over growth are highly debatable. This study claims that although capital flows may be required for the increase in output, other forces are causing this...

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Knowledge networking and growth in service firms

SCHOONJANS, B.; CAUWENBERGE, P. VAN; BAUWHEDE, H. VANDER - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2011

This paper empirically assesses whether knowledge networking affects the growth of small service firms. More … knowledge network called PLATO is positively related to service firm growth. Our results show that knowledge networking has a … that the positive effect of knowledge networking on firm growth is significantly larger for service than for manufacturing …

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