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Perceived Constraints for Dutch Unemployment Policy
Keuzenkamp, Hugo; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
future developments of the Dutch economy, and surveys the political-economic debate in the Netherlands. The focus is on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136745
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Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes and Globalization
Bordo, Michael D; Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper we focus on the different historical regime experiences of the core and the periphery. Using conventional … develop this intuition by showing that before 1914, advanced countries adhered to gold while periphery countries either … resort to capital controls. Thus the key distinction between the exchange rate regime of core and periphery countries both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123652
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The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change
Blattman, Christopher; Hwang, Jason; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their … change. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124340
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Savings, Investment, Government Finance and the Current Account: The Dutch Experience
Keuzenkamp, Hugo; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
development of the Dutch economy pinpointed and the political-economic debate in the Netherlands surveyed. Ten rules for sound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281321
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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123995
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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries
Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124148
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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level
Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We employ a unique data set on white-collar workers that combines direct observations of individual use of information technology as well as objective information on individual performance. The main hypothesis we examine is whether heavier users of IT are more productive, and if heavier users of...
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Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity
Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (DO) using UK firm data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find (a) IT appears to have high returns in a growth accounting sense when DO is omitted; when DO is included the IT...
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The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labour is...
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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114281