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20 years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents … fixed effects vector decomposition method, we estimate the gross total income difference between East and West Germans … taking unobserved heterogeneity into account. Our analysis demonstrates that the negative income gap has decreased from 33 …

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Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea

Pak, Mathilde - 2020

Korea is a top player in emerging digital technologies, with an outstanding digital infrastructure and a dynamic ICT sector. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of digitalisation to contain the spread of the virus, by allowing quick testing and tracing of infected people, and...

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Banks, debts and workers

Denk, Oliver; Fialho, Priscilla - 2020

measures that aim to avoid credit overexpansion are two policies that can improve the links of private debt with labour income …

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Innovation policy and performance : a cross-country comparison

2005

This publication examines the relationship between innovation policy and economic performance in six OECD countries. In-depth analyses highlight countries' strengths and weaknesses in innovation, as well as the effectiveness of their innovation policies in driving economic performance. Taken...