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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
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an income distribution and growth model. The reason to introduce capital scrapping results from the intuition of some …
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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an OLG model, where human capital dynamics depend on the current environment, through its impact on children's school attendance. In turn, environmental quality dynamics depend on...
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an accident might occur in the future. The framework is an optimal growth model with pollution disutility. We show, under … some simple conditions on the balanced growth rate of the economy and on the preference parameters of the households, the …
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Growth models with endogenous mortality assume generally that life expectancy is increasing with output per capita, and …
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This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...
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This paper provides evidence of a change in the relationship between individual satisfaction with the state of country's economy and income inequality during transition from a command to market economic system. Using data from a series of extensive and frequent surveys of Polish population, we...
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Our work contributes to the literature relating output structure and economic development by showing that growth gains … capabilities available to domestic _rms operating in ordinary trade is an important driver of economic growth. However, no direct … technology adoption to be growth enhancing. …
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Les réseaux de franchise sont de plus en plus nombreux chaque année en France. Dans un secteur économique difficile, ils peuvent apparaître comme la solution pour se lancer dans l'entrepreneuriat en toute sécurité. Mais dernièrement, plusieurs actualités sont venues ternir l'image des...
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Undervaluation of the currency is generally believed to affect growth through two main transmission channels: the … "capital accumulation channel" and the "total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel". This paper carries out the first … empirical investigation on the TFP growth channel. More specifically, we provide answers to the three following questions: Does …
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