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DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND DIFFERENTIAL PRODUCTION STRUCTURE IN A HARRIS-TODARO ECONOMY
Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
This paper incorporates informal sector and efficiency wage relation in a Harris-Todaro econmy under differential production structure. The simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage relation. Two different...
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Trends in East European Factor Productivity
Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005
rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The rate of growth of the total factor productivity was estimated as a … average annual rates of growth of the total factor productivity were very high (around 6 per cent) in the case of … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …
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Production Function of Skilled and Unskilled Labour in a Model of a Non-Growing Russian Economy. - Aberdeen: ILM Conference Proceedings, October 11-12, 1999. PP.560-575.
Olenev, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2003
This paper builds a production function of skilled and unskilled labour for the economy that does not grow. The paper uses the constant elasticity of substitution production function (CES) of skilled and unskilled labour on the micro level as an important building stone. The paper obtains a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125802
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The technological theory of production and a method of decomposition of the rate of GDP in terms of labour and capital services
Pokrovski, Vladimir - EconWPA - 2003
It is assumed that performance of production system can be described with the three variables: amount of production equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function can be specified as the known Cobb- Douglas production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134973
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Production Functions Estimates for Soviet Industry and Some Implications
Kyn, Oldrich; Wagener, Hans-Juergen; Hocke, Joerg - EconWPA - 2005
This study presents estimation of production functions for the Soviet industry from the 1951—1970 data. Different … specifications and estimation procedures were tried. The results diverged on a wide range and this may have serious implications. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407937
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The Effects of Life Expectancy on Fiji's Output: A Time Series Approach from 1970 to 2002
Rao, B Bhaskara; Nisha, Fozia; Prasad, Biman C - EconWPA - 2005
and estimation issues in the time series approach to the determinants of output. Our approach is used to measure the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412824
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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition
Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001
In this paper we try to explain some restructuring patterns of Czech textile and clothing industries from a microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412948
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DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH RATE: SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES WITH DATA FROM FIJI
Rao, Bhaskara; Rao, Maheshwar - EconWPA - 2005
specification and estimation issues in the time series approach and provides some guidelines. Our approach is used to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561111
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Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises
Lizal, Lubomir - EconWPA - 2001
production for domestic and foreign markets differently, i.e, use the advantage of an undervalued currency. The estimation was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118676
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Reputation and competence in publicly funded scientific research
Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - EconWPA - 1996
This paper studies an unusually comprehensive data-set of the universe of research groups that applied to an Italian 1989 93 research programme in biotechnology and bio-instrumentation. We develop a model to test whether past publications influence the expected grants obtained by the units in...
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