Does technological change amount to accumulation of general, and so transferable, human capital? To approach this question I rely on a theoretical framework in which the “technology distance” between industries reduces inter-industry transferability of workers’ skill. Empirically, I use US panel data on individual intra-industry and inter-industry mobility decisions between 1982 and 1990, a per...

This paper investigates the effects of trade in food on obesity in Mexico. We classify Mexican food imports from the U.S. into healthy and unhealthy and match these with anthropometric and food expenditure survey data. We exploit variation across Mexican states in their exposure to food imports from the U.S.. We find that imports of unhealthy foods significantly contribute to the rise of obesit...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of globalization on the cost of capital accepted companies in tehran stock exchange (tse(. in this regard, the degree of trade openness as an index the globalization of trade and other control variables such as firm size, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, instantaneous ratio and the ratio of debts to total of equity has been used for ...

This paper examines and quantifies the complex linkages between industrial activity, environmental regulations and air pollution in China. We utilize a little used dataset of Chinese industry specific emissions for a variety of pollutants between 1996 and 2003. Our analysis allows us to investigate the role played by different determinants of emissions intensity. We find pollution intensity to ...

Since july 1991, major economic policy changes have been made under the economic reforms programme. The new policies have relaxed or removed many government controls on production capacity, imported capital goods, intermediate inputs and technology. These reforms have altered the economic environment in which the companies operate. This paper makes a comparative analysis of productivity growth ...

Imports of goods that embody foreign technology can raise a country’s output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse engineering of these goods, contributing to domestic imitation and innovation. This paper quantifies spillovers from high technology imports to domestic imitation and innovation in both developed and developing countries. It then considers the contributi...

Poverty alleviation is the first battle to realize rural revitalization strategy in China, and research on sustainable livelihood of households great significance solving problem poverty. Based framework, reasonable scale structure fiscal expenditure an inevitable requirement producing capital toward this aim. In study, system Gaussian mixed model was used analyze impact farmers’ livelihoods. R...

To explore the contribution of marine resources to economic growth, this study uses panel data from 2006–2019 across 11 coastal provinces and cities in China establishes threshold regression models using capital, labor, science technology as variables affecting growth. The findings reveal that impact on growth only demonstrates a single effect under primary industry resources; general, with inc...

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer countries, however, derive benefits from knowledge spillovers. The empirical analysis in this paper shows that what type of intermediate goods and capital eq...