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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …
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Uncovering the impact of intergenerational income mobility on interpersonal trust
Shaleva, Anna E. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 15, pp. 1-17
Alluding to theories about relative economic status and behavior, this paper studies if relative income mobility, or the intergenerational change in income positions, affects interpersonal trust. Empirically, the question is brought down to an application with US General Social Survey data. For...
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Decomposing employment growth in selected sub-Saharan African countries : the roles of structural changes and demographic transition
Adegboye, Abidemi C.; Ighodaro, Clement A. U. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 11 (2020) 2, pp. 145-179
The challenge of employment growth in SSA countries goes beyond economic growthprospects to include structural and …-ment growth for a set of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries using available annualdata from 1970 to 2014. A decomposition approach … is employed in the study us-ing the Jobs Generation and Growth (JoGGs) method which generates results thatshow …
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Output gap determinants in Ethiopia
Degu, Adisu Abebaw - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
The output gap measured as the percentage deviation of actual output from its potential level is an indicator of an economy's achievement. Output gap has been an important concept used for forming of policies. In this study, we estimated the potential output and output gap, established some of...
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Interplays among R&D spending, patent and income growth : new empirical evidence from the panel of countries and groups
Das, Ramesh Chandra - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 9 (2020) 18, pp. 1-22
, and the long-run motive is to influence income growth of the countries. The empirical findings so far are skeptical on the …-run dynamics among R&D spending, number of patents and per capita income growth in the panel of countries and groups for the period … income growth have no long-run equilibrium relations but in the short-run, income growth and number of patents make a cause …
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Institutions and FDI : evidence from developed and developing countries
Sabir, Samina; Rafique, Anum; Abbas, Kamran - In: Financial innovation : FIN 5 (2019) 8, pp. 1-20
This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income countries for the sample period of 1996-2016 using the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results...
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The relationship between export and growth : panel data evidence from Turkish sectors
Aslan, Alper; Topcu, Ebru - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-15
The aim of this study is to examine the impact of sectoral exports on economic growth in Turkey over the period 2000 … sectors. Findings in the case of the pooled panel indicate the validity of the export-led growth hypothesis. Disaggregated … evidences, on the other hand, reveal the validity of export-led growth hypothesis in the case of (i) agriculture and forestry …
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Is trade liberalization, economic growth, energy consumption good for the environment? : time series evidence from Pakistan
Jabeen, Asma - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 6 (2015) 2, pp. 1-13
The study attempts to identify the dynamic relationship between trade, income growth, energy consumption and CO2 … economy, while income growth, energy consumption tends to worsen the environmental quality thus supporting the existence of …
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Does wage bonus positively impact the economy?
Le Van, Cuong; Nguyen To-The - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 1 (2021) 1, pp. 21-31
growth by inducing high output. Actually, workers' effort is among the important factors that positively influence the TFP …
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Impact of government expenditure on economic growth in different states in South Africa
Buthelezi, Eugene Msizi - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper investigates the impact of long-run government expenditure and economic growth in different states in South … Africa. Economic growth has been below the policy target of 5% stipulated in the National Development Plan Vision 2030, while … government expenditure growth has been volatile but increasing at a decreasing rate. The paper uses the Vector-error correction …
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