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Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...

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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide: Recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...

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Intangible capital and growth in advanced economies: Measurement methods and comparative results

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia; … - 2012

We present a harmonized data set on intangible investment for a number of EU countries and an analysis of growth.

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Family Ties

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

household production and less participation in the labor market of women, young adult and elderly. They are correlated with … lower interest and participation in political activities and prefer labor market regulation and welfare systems based upon … regarding the strength of family relationships are very persistent over time, more so than institutions like labor market …

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The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions

Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly …

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The shape of the income distribution and economic growth: Evidence from Swedish labor market regions

Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2011

We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278526

International Business Visits and the Technology Frontier

Dowrick, Steve; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for a panel of twelve Australian industries during...

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006

Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...

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Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies: Measurement Methods and Comparative Results

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We present a harmonized data set on intangible investment for a number of EU countries and an analysis of growth.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559023

Remittances, institutions and economic growth

Catrinescu, Natalia; Leon-Ledesma, Miguel; Piracha, Matloob - 2006

contribute to longer-term growth by building human and financial capital or degrade long-run growth by creating labor …

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