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intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the production process. In light of the growing significance of skilled labor for … fostering the return to physical capital, elites in society were induced to relinquish their historically profitable coercion of … labor in favor of employing free skilled workers, thereby incentivizing the masses to engage in broad-based human capital …
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The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research …
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This study provides some perspective on analyzing the effects of corporate taxation on capital formation. Our framework … impact on policy. The remainder of the paper focuses on the substitution elasticity between labor and capital. Several of the …
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KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual … property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume that the aggregate output is produced using labor and these three … types of capital and allow for differences in the elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP …
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heterogeneous agents, human capital investment and capital-skill complementarity. It shows that increasing funding delivers in the … long run higher physical and human capital and therefore higher output, but also higher wage and income inequality. The …
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This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are free to move and wages are bargained over. Job-seekers choose between searching locally or searching in both regions. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter...
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employment (and unemployment) both directly and indirectly, via its impact on regional profits and the capital stock. …
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Support for right-wing populist parties is characterised by considerable regional heterogeneity and especially concentrated in regions that have experienced economic decline. It remains unclear, however, whether the spatial externalities of local decline, including homelessness and crime, boost...
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A quarter of the population in high-income countries lives in rural areas. However, existing empirical evidence on these areas in OECD countries is scarce. Over the past several decades, many rural areas have been declining. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether these struggling rural areas are...
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