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摘要
Nonlinearities have been identified in recent literature on growth and convergence at the cross-country level and they have been associated with a number of variables of interest such as initial conditions and human capital accumulation. This research takes the analysis at the regional level within a European context while focusing on entrepreneurship and, using semiparametric regression techniques, provides evidence for nonlinear effects of the base-year income per capita on growth suggesting that convergence may be a phenomenon restricted to particular income bands. Entrepreneurship has a positive effect on regional growth and no serious departures from linearity are detected, while evidence for an almost L-shaped relationship between income per capita levels and self-employment rates was produced. A quality-adjusted proxy for human capital stock was found to be a positive and significant determinant of economic growth across European regions but, again, no departures for linearity were detected for this effect.
- 出版日期2012-6
