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Wage and Productivity Differentials in Private and Public

Ozmucur, Suleyman - EconWPA - 2003

A model is used to study the impact of ownership on productivity and wages. Data on private and public manufacturing in … Turkey during the 1950-1998 period indicate that productivity is higher in the private sector.There is a close relationship … between wages and productivity in the private sector; no such relationship exists in the public sector. …

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Qualitative Efficiency Assessment of Markets: An Institutional Approach to Training

Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 2004

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …

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Marchés, organisations de la production et rentabilité des entreprises industrielles françaises (The markets, organisations and profitability of french manufacturing firms)

Paranque, Bernard; Rivaud-Danset, Dorothée; Salais, Robert - EconWPA - 1996

Our research has endeavoured to exploit recent analyses of products and market diversity in terms of the plurality of worlds of production. We show that there are severals ways to be profitable and there is no hierarchie between them. This study is conducted using a sample data of 1354 French...

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Community Perceptions of Unmeasured Quality Improvement in Goods and Services

Black, Ian - EconWPA - 2003

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

Nigeria is going through a difficult political and economic transition after decades of independence.Yet, Nigeria remains a society rich in cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political diversity. Today, the average Nigerian struggles hard to make ends meet; sees himself or herself as...

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The Rise in Returns to Education and the Decline in Household Savings

Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the consequences of rising returns to human capital investment on the personal savings rate. Over the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological...

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Growth and Convergence across the U.S: Evidence from County-Level Data

Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

correlates with growth while education employment negatively correlates. …

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Health Economics : some stylized facts

ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...

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Space, Growth and Technology: an Integrated Dynamic Approach

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...

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The impact on the U.S. Dollar of the conflict between the American locomotive’s model and the emerging economies’ autopoietic growth.

Viviani, Carlo; Savona, Paolo - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to put the future of the US dollar into a logical framework which comprises the global development mechanism. Two models of growth collide: the US «locomotive», based on the international use of the dollar, and which requires exogenous pushes coming permanently...

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