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The effect of migration and spatial connectivity on regional skill endowments across Europe: 1988-2010
Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - 2013
using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293190
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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments across Europe: 1988-2010
Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734425
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Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Thomas; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
This paper investigates the East African Community (EAC) partner states' readiness for a common currency. It uses … susceptible to asymmetric shocks. Inflation is in the process of converging in EAC, but the speed of convergence is slow. Time is … needed for preparing and for harmonizing policy before adopting the common currency. Adopting a common currency will lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351749
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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh N.N.; … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296660
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Weiss, Yoram; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262081
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the … activity taking place in 2002, the middle of the period analyzed. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269128
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269575
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271756
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Global business cycles: convergence or decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; Prasad, Eswar - 2008
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … importance of the global factor. In other words, there is evidence of business cycle convergence within each of these two groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276108