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example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. -- Exchange rates ; Productivity …
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Can regulation solve problems arising from a natural monopoly? This paper analyzes whether “unbundling,” referring to regulations that enforce sharing of natural monopolistic infrastructure, prevents entrants from building new infrastructure. It models and estimates a dynamic entry game to...
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), provides a separate analysis of trend labour input and trend labour productivity, and in doing so accounts for more long …
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This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Workers under fixed-term contracts can be dismissed at no cost while permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market...
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a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and …
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In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of industries, and account for 40 per cent of the total job reallocation. Yet most models of job reallocation abstract from temporary workers. This paper evaluates the importance...
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Treating imports as intermediate inputs to domestic production, the author adopts the translog function approach to model real gross domestic income (GDI) in Canada over the 1961-2006 period. She explores the role of price ratios, such as terms of trade and the real effective exchange rate, in...
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explicitly related to the trend of labour force productivity and of the participation rate. These two variables have been … of labour force productivity and the participation rate. Furthermore, since 1995, the growth rate of potential GDP has … been clearly above its historical average because of an increase in the trend of productivity and, to a lesser degree, in …
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mainly through changes in ownership) on aggregate labour productivity. Capital reallocation is an important activity in the … United States: on average, its total value is 3-4 per cent of U.S. GDP. Firms with lower productivity are more likely to be … reallocated to (i.e., bought by) more productive firms. Reallocated establishments experience an increase in productivity. The …
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