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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in … small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of … significant and positive influence both on labour productivity and on human development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076902
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Labour productivity growth and industry structure. The impact of industry structure on productivity growth, export prices and labour compensation.
Sinkkonen, Johanna - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper labour productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of … productivity is analysed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is … that the industry structure that leads to fast productivity growth is connected to falling export prices. The relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124953
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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth
Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999
productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125046
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in … small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of … significant and positive influence both on labour productivity and on human development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134471
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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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Il Dibattito sul Mezzogiorno d'Italia: le Posizioni a Confronto
Arnone, Marco - EconWPA - 2004
This essay presents a survey of the main contribution to the debate on the causes and effects of the underdevelopment of the Italian Mezzogiorno. The essay describes the most recent analysis devoting specific attention to policy proposals. Questo saggio presenta una rassegna dei principali...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062457
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in … small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of … significant and positive influence both on labour productivity and on human development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062485
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in … small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of … significant and positive influence both on labour productivity and on human development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407818
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Growth and Business Cycles for the Swedish Economy 1963-1999
Barot, Bharat - EconWPA - 2004
, using a dynamic specification of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). In order to facilitate comparisons we compare the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412664
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076859