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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries

Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014

Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....

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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Financial development, globalization, and structural transformation in developing countries

Avoumatsodo, Komla - 2023

sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …

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Routine-biased technical change, structure of employment, and cross-country income differences

Pena, Werner; Siegel, Christian - 2023

-biased. The productivity of routine labour is about 11 times higher in the top 25 percent than in the bottom 25 percent of …

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Appropriate Technology, Human Capital and Development Accounting

Chanda, Areendam; Farkas, Beatrice - 2012

role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief …

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Do Good Institutions Enhance the Effect of Technological Spillovers on Productivity? Comparative Evidence from Developed and Transition Economies

Krammer, Sorin M. S. - 2017

This paper argues that institutional quality has both direct and indirect (moderating) effects on productivity of … developed and transition economies. The results confirm that good institutions have positive and similar effects on productivity … across the board. Moreover, they moderate the relationship between foreign technological spillovers and productivity …

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The role of total factor productivity growth in middle-income countries

Kim, Jungsuk; Park, Jungsoo - 2017

We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based on cross …

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Chapter 10 Explaining cross-country income differences

McGrattan, Ellen R.; Schmitz, James A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part A, (pp. 669-737). 1999

This chapter reviews the literature that tries to explain the disparity and variation of GDP per worker and GDP per capita across countries and across time. There are many potential explanations for the different patterns of development across countries, including differences in luck, raw...

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Directed Technological Change & Cross-Country Income Differences : A Quantitative Analysis

Jerzmanowski, Michal - 2019

and their productivity. Recent work suggests that these calculations should treat workers of different skill levels as … imperfect substitutes. However, under this approach, it has been challenging to compute skill-specific productivity levels for a … data set on labor force composition to construct measures of productivity for workers in three distinct skill categories …

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Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective

Escaith, Hubert - 2016 - Manuscript date: 24 February 2016

Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. The present essay builds on recent statistical advances to suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) -...

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