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industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …
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which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …
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In recent years, understanding the structure and function of complex networks has become the foundation for explaining many different real- world complex biological, technological and informal social phenomena. Techniques from statistical physics have been successfully applied to the analysis of...
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The idea of architectures of control is introduced through examples ranging from urban planning to digital rights management, and the intentions behind their use in consumer products are examined, with reference to case studies of printer cartridges and proposed ‘optimum lifetime products.’...
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I estimate the effect of team production on labor productivity and product quality using a cross section of British … establishment enjoys statistically significant increases in labor productivity (but not product quality) from using teams, though …
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The Klein-Leffler (1981) model of product quality does not explain why high-quality firms would dissipate the rents they earn from quality- assuring price premia, and it relies on consumers knowing the cost functions of firms. In the present paper, consumers do not know any firm's cost of...
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In this paper we address some of the issues resulting from Poland's will to join the Economic and Monetary Union. Our …-Samuelson effect for Poland are provided. …
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of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably … rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The rate of growth of the total factor productivity was estimated as a … the rate of technical change for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. Although the pooling eliminated …
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We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the …
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