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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125631
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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125690
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Entrepreneurial Innovation
Rigotti, Luca; Ryan, Matthew; Vaithianathan, Rhema - EconWPA - 2001
This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude toward uncertainty. Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous. An entrepreneur, who owns residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556737
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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135002
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Review of TCF Assistance
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135095
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Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561801
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Work arrangements in container stevedoring
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561840