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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...

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Estimating a Life Cycle Model with Unemployment and Human Capital Depreciation

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

I estimate a life cycle model of consumption choice with unemployment risk. Employed individuals face the risk of losing their job. Unemployed agents receive job random offers of different quality, which they can accept or reject. Following the loss of a job and during unemployment, an agent’s...

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called ‘interactive learning’. We examine how knowledge … distribution of knowledge diffusion. We will show how these factors can be classified as follow: (1) learning strategies adopted by … their relative initial levels of knowledge. We shall also attempt to single out the relative effect of each of the above …

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Concentration in Knowledge Output:A Case of Economics Journals

Bino, Paul G.D.; Subash, S.; Ramanathan, A. - EconWPA - 2004

Journals moderate knowledge activity in economics. The activity of publishing article in professional journal forms … significant part of knowledge output. Output of economics articles has been growing over the time. We examine an important … question: Is there any case of institutional or location concentration in knowledge production? This paper analyses …

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