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Expenditures on healthcare and employment in the healthcare sector have been steadily increasing across OECD countries for many years. This shift of expenditure and employment towards a consistently found to be less productive sector has often been associated with the idea of Baumol’s (1967)...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between demographic change and automation while taking the role of education into account. This is illustrated by incorporating skilled and unskilled labor into a theoretical model. If labor supply by households decreases, for example, due to demographic...
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In order to obtain plausible scenarios of economic development in Romania up to the 2015 horizon, we used a mix of forecasting models, from ones classified as “medium-term” to those covering longer forecasting periods. Based on the analysis of the economic transition period we mainly used...
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While the labor share of income has decreased in most advanced economies since the 1980s, it has remained relatively stable in Switzerland. However, this does not imply that the capital share of income has also remained stable. Our results suggest that the share of imputed capital rental...
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This short note discusses the role of employer heterogeneity as a driver of growth and earnings inequality across the world. Policy implications are discussed.
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Labor share, the fraction of economic output accrued as wages, is inexplicably declining in industrialized countries. Whilst numerous prior works attempt to explain the decline via economic factors, our novel approach links the decline to biological factors. Specifically, we propose a...
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Labor share, the fraction of economic output accrued as wages, is inexplicably declining in industrialized countries. Whilst numerous prior works attempt to explain the decline via economic factors, our novel approach links the decline to biological factors. Specifically, we propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015270673
This paper analyzes the valorization process in Chile, Japan, Netherlands and United States, estimating advanced constant and variable capital, turnover speed, capital composition and profit rate on total advanced capital. Furthermore, it analyzes the role of turnover speed in the valorization...
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Economic liberalization in Nepal has opened foreign direct investment (FDI) with assumption of positive impact on GDP and Export trade. This study examines on the relationship between FDI and GDP and the impact of FDI determinants on FDI inflow in Nepal. We use here multiple regression models....
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globalization affected the relative share of income going to capital and labor? Using a panel of over one hundred countries, this …
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