productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p.a. Based on a cross …

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

lower economic growth; and that the former also implies a reduction in per capita GDP, while the latter distorts the …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …

discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using …

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …

evidence on media markets, knowledge transmission, and city growth across Europe 1450-1600. The paper construct- s …-level supply induced by heterogeneous manager deaths is used to identify the impact of print media on city-level population growth …. Local access to printed merchants' manuals used in business education was particularly associated with growth. New micro …

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …