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Currency boards have often been at the heart of monetary reforms proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) : they have been instrumental either as a short term crisis management strategy that successfully restores financial order for many countries seeking stabilization in the aftermath...
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the importance of the outward orientation of services for service sector productivity, and the growing importance of … services for productivity performance overall. (3) The trend of British industrial performance was not improved by protection …-industrialisation after World War II had an adverse effect on productivity performance in industry and in the aggregate economy. …
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with new Banca d’Italia estimates of GDP by sector, this paper evaluates the different labour productivity growth trends … within the Italian economy’s sectors, as well as the contribution of structural change to productivity growth. Italy …’s performance is then set in an international context: a comparison of sectoral labour productivity growth rates and levels within a …
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factor productivity (TFP) and by the capital stock per capita. These variables su¢ ce to calculate welfare changes within a …
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We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field … experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an unconditional monetary … transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the unemployed …
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In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: “this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X”. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment...
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Although there is a very large literature on the links between farm size and farm productivity in Indian agriculture …
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