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Of the total final energy consumption in India, the industrial sector accounts for about 37 percent, of which the …
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costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …
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provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …
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We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a … of the formal wage does not necessarily ensure higher R&D and labour-productivity of the formal firm while a rise of the … informal sector wage must improve R&D and the resultant labour-productivity in the firm. Thus countries with a vast segment of …
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This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an … economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We find that faster productivity growth in the service sector in Asia … services productivity growth, there is a significant expansion of the durable manufacturing sector that is required to provide …
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This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an … economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We find that faster productivity growth in the service sector in Asia … services productivity growth, there is a significant expansion of the durable manufacturing sector that is required to provide …
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This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods1995-96 and 2000-01for 101 industries at the 5-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been...
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intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a … making domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options … simulations suggest that : rapid productivity growth, even when combined with trade liberalization, is generally favorable for …
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intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a … making domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options … simulations suggest that : rapid productivity growth, even when combined with trade liberalization, is generally favorable for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363770
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
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