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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2010

Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - 2021

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2018

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …

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ICT Use in the Developing World : An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie David; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …

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The indirect effect of democracy on economic growth in the MENA region (1990-2015)

Nosier, Shereen; El-Karamani, Aya - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/61, pp. 1-24

This paper examines the indirect effect of democracy on economic growth using a dataset of 17 MENA countries from 1990 to 2015. Democracy is assumed to affect growth through a series of channels: education, health, physical capital accumulation per labor, government consumption, and trade...

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Divergence in Labour Force Growth : Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?

Beissinger, Thomas - 2020

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...

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Institutional change and macroeconomic variables in the ASEAN-Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia : the effects of a trade war between China and USA

Aba, Fransiskus Xaverius Lara - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-21

A trade war between the United States and China resulted in an increase in trade tariffs on imported goods entering each of these countries. Southeast Asian countries that have trade relations with the two countries, especially in terms of non-oil and gas exports of 25% to 35%, will be affected...

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What Accounts for the Us Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century : The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

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