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Fertility and prosperity : links between demography and economic growth
Werding, Martin; Munz, Sonja; Gács, Vera - 2008
The present study reports on results emerging from the research project «Fertility and Prosperity: Links between … countries and (b) a survey of fertility outcomes and family policies in a limited number of developed countries. The results … indicate that the decline in fertility observed in the past, through its impact on the size and age-composition of the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845814
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Unraveling the Origins of EU Countries Productivity Growth - Evidence on R&D and Competition from Cross-Country Industry Analysis
Strobel, Thomas - 2010
Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassicalNon-ICT capital deepening turns out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312160
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Assessing the Role of Ageing, Feminising and Better-Educated Workforces on TFP Growth
Ariu, A. - 2019
This paper uses Belgian firm-level data, covering the 1998-2006 period, to assess the impact on TFP growth of key labour force structural changes: ageing, feminisation and rise of educational attainment. Based on a Hellerstein-Neumark analytical framework, our work shows that an ageing workforce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871851
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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment
Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021
This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE). We argue that the factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the region - skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433894
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Künstliche Intelligenz : wo stehen wir in Deutschland?
Brühl, Volker - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 103 (2023) 8, pp. 521-524
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as a technology which will impact the future competitiveness of the Germaneconomy. Looking at the research productivity of German scientists and universities in AI, we find that Germany definitively belongs tothe top performers in AI research...
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Demographie und Bildung : gehen uns die Qualifizierten aus? : Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf das deutsche Bildungssystem
Foders, Federico - 2000
nehmen in Kauf, dass ein geringeres Angebot an Qualifizierten zu weniger Wirtschaftswachstum führt. Oder sie schaffen die … notwendigen Anreize dafür, dass das Humankapital einer schrumpfenden und alternden Bevölkerung kontinuierlich aktualisiert und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490538
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Fertility and prosperity: links between demography and economic growth
Werding, Martin; Munz, Sonja; Gács, Vera - 2008
The present study reports on results emerging from the research project «Fertility and Prosperity: Links between … countries and (b) a survey of fertility outcomes and family policies in a limited number of developed countries. The results … indicate that the decline in fertility observed in the past, through its impact on the size and age-composition of the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698397
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Education, Research, and Economic Growth
Caspari, Volker; Rubart, Jens; Rehme, Günther - 2004
It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one reason of this decline. In this study we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262987
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The Economic Impact of Capital-Skill Complementarities in German and US Industries Productivity Growth and the New Economy
Strobel, Thomas - 2010
US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth compared to Germany, while other (non-ICT-skillintensive) industries showed similar growth trends in both countries. Examining thesource of industry productivity growth in German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312172
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Financial Development, Firm Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Divergence in Europe
Sui, Xiaomei - 2021
Since the information and communications technology revolution, productivity growth in Southern European countries has been substantially lower than in developed European countries. I document that Spanish firms have lower productivity growth, lower intangible capital growth, and lower leverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220301