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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?

Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019

A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

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Heterogeneity of technology-specific R&D investments : evidence from top R&D investors worldwide

Gkotsis, Petros; Vezzani, Antonio - 2018

combine R&D investments with patent data of the world top R&D investors worldwide and show that investment per patent varies …

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Reassessing the Empirical Validity of the Human-Capital Augmented Neoclassical Growth Model

Dinopoulos, Elias; Thompson, Peter - 2015

We reassess Mankiw, Romer and Weil's [mrw] version of the Solow model using, as did mrw, cross-sectional data to estimate the steady-state equation governing income per capita levels. The model fails in two critical areas. First, plausible factor shares obtained by mrw are not robust to the...

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Explaining Inequality the World Round : Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, and Openness

Higgins, Matthew J. - 2013

cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalization or policy effects. We …

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Migration of Firms, Home Bias and Economic Growth

Aharonovitz, Gilad D. - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of government policies on the short-run and long-run movement of locally owned firms from a developed country to a less-developed country and on the output and growth rate of each country in the presence of home bias. The analysis uses a model which was developed...

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Nationality matters : the geographic origin of multinationals and the productivity of their foreign affiliates

Arndt, Christian; Spies, Julia - 2012

While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...

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Unequal inequalities : do progressive taxes reduce income inequality?

Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...

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Does public-private investment augment renewable energy consumption in BIMSTEC nations? : evidence from symmetric and asymmetric assessment

Qamruzzaman, Md; Karim, Salma - In: Energy strategy reviews 49 (2023), pp. 1-25

This study investigates the impact of public-private investment, globalization, and urbanization on the aggregation of … variables: public-private investment, globalization, and urbanization. Furthermore, the causality assessment reveals evidence … supporting the feedback hypothesis between renewable energy consumption, public-private investment, and globalization. Because of …

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Chapter 8 Growth Econometrics

Durlauf, Steven N.; Johnson, Paul A.; Temple, Jonathan R.W. - 2005

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous patterns in growth data and...

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Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor

Hibbs, Douglas A.; Olsson, Ola - 2010

world, with big consequences for the present-day economic conditions of populations indigenous to each region. In this paper …

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