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This paper extends the applied time series literature in economic development, by testing whether the per capita real GDP time series in 27 African countries are non-stationary or non-linear and globally stationary over the relatively long period from 1960 to 2007. Using the non- linear unit...
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growth process appears to be scale invariant but for countries in the tails of the world income distribution, and that the … relative volatility of smaller countries' growth processes have increased over time. …
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growth process appears to be scale invariant but for countries in the tails of the world income distribution, and that the … relative volatility of smaller countries' growth processes have increased over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094837
The paper investigates the long-run and the causality relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for … that energy consumption is cointegrated with economic growth in Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, and South Africa. Moreover …, this test suggests that economic growth has a significant positive long run impact on energy consumption in these countries …
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We revisit the evidence of the existence of a long-run link between financial intermediation and economic growth, by … testing of cointegration between the growth rate of real GDP, control variables and three series reflecting financial … intermediation. We consider a model with a factor structure that allows us to determine whether the finance-growth link is due to …
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graduates. Paradoxically, if it is always profitable for individuals to increase their education investment; in term of growth …In the last two decades, France has experienced an increase in mismatches between education and work. This article … studies twenty two years of French productivity to highlight the causes and effects of over-education on the employee wages …
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This note analyzes an overlapping generations model including the worst forms of child labour based on Dessy and Pallage's (2005) study. We demonstrate the human capital dynamics and show the possibility of the emergences of a poverty trap given the worst forms of child labour, the high...
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The aim of this note is to investigate the relationship between economic growth and mandatory retirement in an … overlapping generations model where private investment in human capital is the engine of endogenous growth. We derive a novel … result in the retirement-growth literature by showing that the relationship between the mandatory retirement age and economic …
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The paper contributes to the literature on gender-based disparity in human capital by extending existing results on educational attainment to the number of years of experience that female vs. male managers have among informal or unregistered firms. Using the case of Rwanda, results show that the...
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Uzawa (1961) has shown that balanced growth requires technological progress to be strictly Harrod neutral (purely labor …
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