Flows of people, flows of ideas, and the inequality of nations

Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan

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“…These values 4 As Weber points out, similar values were found among the Cluniacs. The impact of the Cluny order has received scant attention in the literature in comparison with the Cistercians.…”

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Religious Orders and Growth Through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England

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We advance the hypothesis that cultural values such as high work ethic and thrift, "the Protestant ethic" according to Max Weber, may have been diffused long before the Reformation, thereby importantly affecting the pre-industrial growth record. The source of pre-Reformation Protestant ethic, according to the proposed theory, was the Catholic Order of Cistercians. Using county-level data for England we find empirically that the frequency of Cistercian monasteries influenced county-level comparative development until 1801; that is, long after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The pre-industrial development of England may thus have been propelled by a process of growth through cultural change.

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“…4 The emphasis on hard work and thrift made the Cistercians entrepreneurial and ultimately very successful economically (Baumol 1990). They contributed much as agriculturists and as horse and cattle breeders.…”

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“…This notion is supported by a series of recent studies documenting the importance of short-term (Andersen and Dalgaard, 2011;Hovhannisyan and Keller, 2015) and long-term (Ortega and Peri, 2014) cross-border flows of people for TFP growth and economic growth. These studies find simultaneously little support for openness to trade as a separate channel of knowledge diffusion, therewith corroborating Frankel and Romer's (1999) suspicion that it is the exchange of ideas trough communication and travel rather than the shipment of goods through which openness generates international productivity spillovers.…”

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Innovation and Inequality in a Small World

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Abstract. We present a multi-country theory of economic growth and R&D-driven technological progress in which countries are connected by a network of knowledge exchange. Technological progress in any country depends on the state of technology in the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including the overtaking of individual countries and the replacement of the technologically leading country in the course of world development.

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“…The notion that mobility of individuals matters for diffusion of knowledge has been used in models with international diffusion of knowledge through cross-border flows of people [see Lucas (1993) and Andersen and Dalgaard (2011)]. The assumption is in line with the finding in Machin et al (2012) that labor mobility is positively related to individuals' level of education.…”

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Knowledge Misallocation and Growth

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We develop a growth model where knowledge is embodied in individuals and diffused across sectors through labor mobility. The existence of labor mobility costs constrains mobility and thus generates labor misallocation. Different levels of labor misallocation imply different levels of exploitation of available knowledge and therefore different total factor productivity across countries. We derive a positive relationship between growth and labor mobility, which is consistent with the empirical evidence, by assuming aggregate constant returns to capital. We also analyze the short-and long-run effects of labor mobility costs in the case of decreasing returns to capital. It turns out that changes in mobility costs have larger economic effects when different types of workers have small rather than large complementarities. Finally, we show that different labor income taxes or labor market tightness imply different rates of labor mobility and therefore can explain differences in Gross Domestic Product across countries.

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Flows of people, flows of ideas, and the inequality of nations

Cited by 91 publications

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Religious Orders and Growth Through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England

Religious Orders and Growth Through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England

Innovation and Inequality in a Small World

Knowledge Misallocation and Growth

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