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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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The Effects of Development on Migration : Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Vogler, Michael; Rotte, Ralph - 2021

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

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Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium

Verardi, Vincenzo - 2010

In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...

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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity : Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Jimi, Nusrat - 2019

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon - 2014

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development : Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …

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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Marchiori, Luca - 2013

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2022

subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which …

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