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Testing unified growth theory : technological progress and the child quantity-quality trade-of
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2021
interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the …, indicators for child labor, compulsory schooling, and time- and countryfixed effects, we establish a strong positive impact of … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …
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The effects of education and aging in an OLG model : long-run growth in France, Germany and Italy
Catalano, Michele; Pezzolla, Emilia - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 43 (2016) 4, pp. 757-800
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Determinants of regional productivity growth in Europe : an empirical analysis
Bulavskaya, Tatyana; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2011
Discussion on the possibilities for and barriers to income convergence and catch-up growth is at the heart of the debate on European regional economic policy. This study presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of regional productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge...
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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe
Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012
In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521603
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Space-time dynamics of fertility and commuting
Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014
The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour … market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects fertility. The analytical model, decomposing spatial interaction of … fertility and commuting, is constructed on the base of a model of the demand for children, spatial stock-flow model, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499621
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Engines of sectoral labor productivity growth
Bárány, Zsófia L.; Siegel, Christian - 2019
We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ workers of different occupations and various forms of capital, none of which are perfect substitutes, and technology evolves at the sector-factor cell level. Using the model we...
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Effects of motherhood and selection into motherhood : revisiting the 2007 parental benefits reform in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2021
no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact …
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Backing the right horse : entry versus fixed costs subsidies
Röhe, Oke; Stähler, Nikolai - 2019
This paper provides a tractable dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework with endogenous firm creation and destruction and variable technology utilization to analyze the macroeconomic impact of entry costs and fixed cost subsidies. Based on this setup, we revisit empirical and...
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Long-lasting labour market consequences of German unification
Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; Phan thi Hong Van; … - 2015 - (Final version: Sept. 14, 2015)
This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...
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Technical progress effects on productivity and growth in the Commonwealth of Nations (1993-2009)
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2011
The productivity generated by capital goods is not uniform along the time. When there exist conventional physical capital goods the productivity obtained is minor that the one generated by quality capital goods. To obtain a correct measure of growth in presence of this embodied technical...
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