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Guner, Nezih - 2016

distortions. Distortions that halve the growth of relative managerial earnings (a move from the U.S. to Italy in our data), lead …

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Misallocation and Inequality

Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022

For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...

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Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery : Filling Data Gaps Across Time and Space

Lehnert, Patrick; Niederberger, Michael; … - 2022

periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise not available. In developing this unique …. Compared to satellite data on night light intensity, another common economic proxy, our proxy more precisely predicts economic … Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series …

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and RegionalInequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Min Qiang Zhao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Ourresults show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of severalinterrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, andinfrastructure capital; the infusion of...

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The Productivity Puzzle in Business Services

Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...

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Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation

Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022

Intersectoral linkages can act as shock propagation channels and shape the pattern of structural transformation. To our knowledge, no research has examined how subnational differences in intersectoral linkages impact such spillover effects. We hypothesize that regional differences in local...

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Human Capital and Growth : Specification Matters

Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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Then and Now : Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms

Gregory, Robert G. - 2011

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...

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Is There a Trade-Off between Employment and Productivity?

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2014

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on …

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