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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
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policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for … growth in these economies, as implicitly assumed in the benchmark neoclassical framework. We explore emerging new theories on …
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's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they … insignificant effect on growth. -- international migration ; temporary labour movements ; skilled labour ; economic growth …
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productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …, or level of economic development have the opportunity to access the latest technology and information to stimulate growth …. -- International labour movements ; face-to-face meetings ; business trips ; growth ; productivity …
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China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …. Notwithstanding the inefficient and risky growth model, the government has maneuvered the economy around various stresses without any … growth is key to maintaining reasonable GDP growth. Unbalanced reforms, a schizophrenic approach to the role of the market …
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Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas...
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The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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