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Cross-country income dispersion, human capital, and technology adoption

Amaral, Pedro; Rivera-Padilla, Alberto - 2024

Countries with high levels of human capital also tend to be technologically advanced. We study whether modeling technology adoption can significantly amplify the importance of human capital differences in accounting for cross-country income gaps. We document that schooling is positively and...

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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2024

We document that the gender gap in non-agricultural work in developing countries exists primarily among rural married workers, not singles. Rural married women dedicate a much larger portion of time to home production compared to other groups, making them less likely to pursue non-agricultural...

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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2024

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The Dual Economy in Long-run Development

Vollrath, Dietrich - 2008

eventually disappear within a unified growth framework. It is also shown that agricultural productivity growth will exacerbate … the inefficiencies of a dual economy and slow down long-run growth. …

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A Simple Accounting Framework for the Effect of Resource Misallocation on Aggregate Productivity

Aoki, Shuhei - 2008

This paper develops a simple accounting framework that measures the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate productivity. This framework is based on a multi-sector general equilibrium model with sector-specific frictions in the form of taxes on sectoral factor inputs. Our framework is...

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Structural change, economic growth and environmental dynamics with heterogeneous agents

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2008

This paper presents a model which takes into account two main factors that have been partially neglected by the economic development literature: the environmental externalities of human activities and agents' heterogeneity in terms of asset endowment and, consequently, in terms of income source...

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Old and new dualisms in Latin America and Asia: labour productivity, international competitiveness and income distribution

Escaith, Hubert - 2007

Using sectoral growth accounting techniques from a structural perspective à la Lewis, the paper analyzes the structural …

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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse: The Income Effect Channel

Arezki, Rabah; Alichi, Ali - 2009

of openness and forward altruism. We empirically validate these findings by estimating non-hydrocarbon sector growth …

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Tourism Specialization and Economic Development: Evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage List

Arezki, Rabah; Cherif, Reda; Piotrowski, John - 2009

standard growth equations augmented with a variable measuring tourism specialization using instrumental variables techniques … economic growth. An increase of one standard deviation in the share of tourism in exports leads to about 0.5 percentage point … in additional annual growth, everything else being constant. Our result holds against a large array of robustness checks. …

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Is there a direct effect of corruption on growth?

Dzhumashev, Ratbek - 2009

Recent empirical studies find that the direct effect of corruption on growth is statistically insignificant. However … issue and offers a new perspective on growth effects of corruption and shows that direct and indirect growth effects of … growth effect of corruption. …

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