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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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Latvia: Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...

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Vertical Restructuring of the Infrastructure Sectors of Transition Economies

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...

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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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PERESTROIKA AND RUBLE CONVERTIBILITY

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the role of money in market and centrally planned economies. It then proposes a program and sequence of institutional, macroeconomic and monetary reform aimed at achieving a stable transition. An egalitarian redistribution of the state's custodial assets to its citizens is...

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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...

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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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