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With quantity-based innovation targets and subsidy programs launched since the mid-2000s, Chinese patents have seen a …’ quantity-quality trade-off between radical and incremental innovations, and decomposes subsidies’ impact on growth and welfare …
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of trade and institutions in explaining the differential growth experiences of the two regions. In examining trade policy …
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Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies and are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Differences in the supply of skills create a mismatch between the requirements of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and...
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This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution … countries in the last two centuries. The theory suggests that international trade affected the evolution of economies … asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non-industrial nations while in the industrial …
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This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution … countries in the last two centuries. The analysis suggests that international trade had an asymmetrical effect on the evolution … of industrial and non-industrial economies. While in the industrial nations the gains from trade were directed primarily …
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This research argues that the differential effect of international trade on the demand for human capital across … gains from trade have been directed towards investment in education and growth in income per capita, whereas a significant … establish that indeed trade has positive effects on fertility and negative effects on education in non-OECD economies, while …
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paper considers two distinct channels through which openness might affect growth, namely trade in final goods and technology … although trade and the resulting specialization in production generate a force of divergence between the two economies, this …
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Immigration as a source of population growth is traditionally represented by neoclassical growth models with negative output and growth effects in per capita terms for the host economy. The reasoning behind this is the assumption of decreasing returns to labour in the production function. This...
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This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution … countries in the last two centuries. The theory suggests that international trade affected the evolution of economies … asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non- industrial nations while in the industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125617
De Long and Summers (1991) began a literature examining the impact of equipment investment on growth. In this paper we examine such a relationship for developing countries by considering imports of equipment from advanced countries as our measure of equipment investment for a sample of 55...
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