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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …
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Manufacturing firms in Africa: Some stylized facts about wages and productivity
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422089
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Distribution & Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
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Knowledge Assisted Innovation
Benchimol, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In the present world, change has become a necessity for any organization. This change may be the consequence of evolution of technology, market needs or users behaviour as well as, of course,environment (legal, geopolitical,climatic,cultural and so on); it imposes innovations into numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787002
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Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth
Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article contributes to the growth literature by developing a formal growth model that provides the basis for studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the transitional and steady state growth rates of output. The...
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA – A CASE OF ERITREA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789784
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights...
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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital
Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792394
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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836463