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INEQUALITY AND DETERMINANTS OF EARNINGS IN MALAYSIA, 1984-97

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

Using the large nationally-representative Malaysian Household Income Surveys from 1984, 1989 and 1997, the paper studies earnings inequality and determinants of earnings. During the period 1984-97, Malaysia’s real per capita GDP increased by about 70 percent, participation rates for both men...

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De-industrialisation III

Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002

employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …

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Australia's service sector: a study in diversity

McLachlan, Rosalie; Clark, Colin; Monday, Ian - EconWPA - 2002

This paper seeks to dispel some of the myths commonly harboured about service jobs, service trade and the contribution services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national output and for four out of every five jobs.

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Key emerging and conceptual issues in the development of the rural non-farm economy in developing countries and transition economies

Davis, Junior; Bezemer, Dirk - EconWPA - 2005

The rural non-farm economy (RNFE) is of interest to governments, multilateral donor organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development practitioners because of its increasing prevalence in both developing and transition economies. In many parts of the world, the number of poor...

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Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

Parham, Dean; Barnes, Paula; Roberts, Paul; Kennett, Sharon - EconWPA - 2001

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...

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Output, Capital, and Labor in the Short, and Long-Run

Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Using a new series of capital stock and frequency domain analysis, this paper provides new empirical evidence on the relative importance of capital and labor in the determination of output in the short and long- run. Contrary to the common practice in the traditional growth accounting literature...

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by …

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