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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
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This work aims at analysing the dynamics of macroeconomic fluctuations in Cameroon, using a semi-structural VAR to determine the sources of its macroeconomic fluctuations. The results obtained point out that the macroeconomic fluctuations in Cameroon, even though influenced by external shocks,...
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demand or in the distribution of income, It is motivated by the policy failures as revealed both by the poor growth …
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article concludes that the book will be required reading for all economists interested in long-run economic growth trends and …
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researchers is the impact of these reforms on productivity growth. In this article, Richard B. Freeman of the London School of … trends in productivity growth in Britain and other major developed countries and estimate the impact of British economic …, privatization, profit and share ownership, and self-employment increased UK productivity growth 0.35 per cent per year over the 1979 …
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the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …
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The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … of productivity growth in the United States after 1995 was responsible for our relative deterioration in living standards …
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Dans cette recherche est présenté un “survey” de la théorie sur l’intégration des marchés financiers, suivi de l’analyse empirique sur l’intégration des indices nationaux de seize pays européens dans le « marché européen d’actions », représenté alternativement par ls...
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This papper proposes a comparison of EMU's different fisca rules, i.e. the stability and growth Pact, the structural …
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This paper studies coordination of Fiscal policies in a monetary union in terms of sta- bilization performance. We use a static model of closed monetary union and numerical simulations in which macroeconomic heterogeneities are introduced. Results show that the coordination is an e¢ cient tool...
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