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La productividad en la industria española: Evidencia microeconómica
Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - EconWPA - 2005
El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
Graham, Loren - The MIT Press
conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that … innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia’s failure to sustain technology, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141145
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Job search behavior of unemployed in Russia
Smirnova, Natalia V. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper explores the determinants of job search behavior, search intensity and choices of search methods of the unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to estimate the effects of socio- economic factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126391
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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data
Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005
introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …
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A MESSAGE TO GORBACHEV:REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005
The transition from a planned to a market oriented economy requires a complex amalgam of stabilization, liberalization and privatization policies. This paper outlines a combination of policies believed to be necessary, if not sufficient to enlist the efficiency of market mechanisms along with a...
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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
The Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe are undergoing a historically unprecedented restructuring as they move inexorably from centrally planned economies toward market economies. This historic transition must be guided by a coherent set of stabilization policies to reduce the threat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118685
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PERESTROIKA AND SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? AND HOW?
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the question of whether a communist nation, characterized by state ownership of the means of production and a centrally planned command system of allocation can be transformed into an efficient market oriented economy without fully compromising the socialist ideals of an...
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Child Labor and Fertility
Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003
This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents, who raise and educate children for both financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561532
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
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