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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis
Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015
This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process...
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Testing unified growth theory : technological progress and the child quantity-quality trade-of
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2021
interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the …, indicators for child labor, compulsory schooling, and time- and countryfixed effects, we establish a strong positive impact of … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …
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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2010
. Moreover, popular indicators should be applied with caution. Schooling and human ressources in science and technology can only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608051
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Innovation, decentralization, and planning in a multi-region model of Schumpeterian economic growth
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with N heterogeneous regions. For each region i where i=1,...,N, our analysis leads to five findings. First, we define the balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium...
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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe
Colombelli, Alessandra; Foddi, Marta; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...
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Regional development and creativity
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012
The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...
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Demographics and the decline in firm entry : lessons from a life-cycle model
Röhe, Oke; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020
Since the mid-1970s, firm entry rates in the United States have declined significantly. This also holds for other OECD countries over the past years. At the same time, these economies experienced a gradual process of population aging. Applying a tractable life-cycle model with endogenous firm...
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Stagnant wages, sectoral misallocation and slowing productivity growth
Schmöller, Michaela - 2019
I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in employment, triggered for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307862