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Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model

BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; CAMACHO, Carmen; FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …

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Spatial Unemployment Differentials in Colombia

ESCOBAR, Ana Maria DIAZ - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

This paper studies the geographic distribution of unemployment rates in Colombian urban areas. It introduces measures of spatial correlation and spatial econometric techniques to analyze the dependence in local unemployment rates across municipalities. Results suggest that Colombian...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019028

Economic Growth

CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961076

Ecological Barriers and Convergence: a Note on Geometry in Spatial Growth Models

FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779580

Education Funding and Regional Convergence

de la Croix, David; Monfort, Philippe - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …

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Renewable Natural Resources and Endogenous Growth

AZNAR-MARQUEZ, J.; Ruiz-Tamarit, J.R. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2002

the issues of sustainability, long-run and short-run growth as well as convergence, associated with the competitive …

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Machine Replacement, Technology Adoption and Convergence

Boucekkine, Raouf; Martinez, Blanca - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

short run fluctuations and decreases the convergence speed to the steady states. …

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Fighting poverty and child malnutrition: on the design of foreign aid policies

VASILAKIS, Chrysovalantis - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

In this paper, we have developed a two-period overlapping-generation model featuring the effects of child nutrition in developing countries. The model gives rise to multiple equilibria including a poverty trap. It shows that child nutrition status may affect the development of human capital...

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Economic Development and the Family Structure: from the Pater Familias to the Nuclear Family

PENSIEROSO, Luca; SOMMACAL, Alessandro - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

We provide a theory that is able to account for the observed comovement between the shift in intergenerational living arrangements from coresidence to non-coresidence and economic development. Our theory is consistent with the diminution in the status of the elderly documented by some...

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Childcare and Commitment within Households

GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents increases, the gap between childcare supplied by mothers relative to that supplied by fathers decreases. A two steps semi-cooperative marital decision model is proposed to...

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