Óscar Afonso

TL;DR: In this paper, a general equilibrium endogenous growth model was built in which final goods are produced either in the relatively skilled-labour intensive exports sector or in a relatively unskilled-labours intensive domestic sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct a meta-analysis on the empirical literature that estimates the impact of the parallel economy on economic growth and conclude that there is no publication bias and that the average effect of the non-observed economy on average economic growth is insignificant, however, the reported effects differ considerably with the type and number of countries included in the sample of primary studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a meta-analysis of the empirical literature that estimates the effect of offshoring on wages and found that after correcting for the presence of publication bias, the average effect is not significantly different from zero in either the origin or destination countries.

TL;DR: The authors extended the existing literature by focusing on the implications of labour market institutions on relative (un)employment of unskilled labour, wage inequality in favour of skilled labour, and RD Eastern-European countries record the highest size of RD Nordic countries have the highest share of skilled labor in the total population, RD and Eastern-Asian countries had the highest unskilled-labour share in production.

TL;DR: This work presents explicit Runge-Kutta type methods, a family of methods to solve numerically systems of ordinary differential equations, without the need to evaluate high-order derivatives, to solve a dynamic, general equilibrium growth model of North-South technological-knowledge diffusion by imitation.