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Is More Mobility Good? Firm Mobility and the Low Wage-Low Productivity Trap

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of … firms to raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage–low productivity trap. This paper presents … causal link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970–2000. …

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Productivity Implications of Employee Performance Appraisal System : A Critical Survey.

Subramaniam, Dr. VSR - EconWPA - 2004

The Productivity of any organisation is directly correlated to the Effectiveness of the Employee Performance Appraisal … : Technology, Systems and Manpower are linked in an inter- related circle focusing towards Productivity …

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A VIRTUAL DYNAMIC APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF AFRICA: SPECIFICATIONS AND SIMULATIONS

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

AFRICAN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN MARKEDLY WORSE THAN THAT OF OTHER REGIONS. THUS, THE GOVERNMENTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE ASSUMED MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ECONOMIC REFORMS AND GROWTH. ALONG WITH THESE RESPONSIBILITIES HAS COME AN INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF DIFFERENT...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and defined replacement ratio UI systems are...

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Computing Equilibria in Finance Economies

Herings, P.J.J.; Kubler, F. - EconWPA - 2001

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Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Results from a 2x2x2x2 Overlapping Generations Model with Unequal Population Growth Rates

Sayan, Serdar - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of international trade within an overlapping- generations...

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EMISSION POLICIES AND THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: SIMULATIONS FROM A DYNAMIC APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2002

Recently, there has been growing concern that human activities may be affecting the global climate through growing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases(GHG). Such warming could have major impacts on economic activity and society. For the Nigerian case, the study uses multisector...

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Sustainability of the Slovenian Pension System: An Analysis with an Overlapping-generations General Equilibrium Model

Verbic, Miroslav; Majcen, Boris; Nieuwkoop, Renger van - EconWPA - 2005

The article presents an analysis of welfare effects in Slovenia, an analysis of macroeconomic effects of the Slovenian pension reform and an analysis of effects of the pension fund deficit on sustainability of Slovenian public finances with a dynamic OLG general equilibrium model. It has been...

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The Price Normalisation Problem in General Equilibriun Models with Oligopoly Power: An Attempt at Perspective

Willenbockel, Dirk - EconWPA - 2005

In general equilibrium models with oligopolistic firms, equilibrium outcomes may depend on the choice of numeraire. When firms have the power to influence prices strategically, different price normalisations entail objective profit functions which are generally not monotone transformations of...

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Aging, Labor Markets and Pension Reform in Austria

Christian, Keuschnigg; Mirela, Keuschnigg - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates the dynamic consequences of demographic change and various pension reform scenarios for Austria. The analysis is based on a computable overlapping generations model with life-cycle labor supply, savings, and search unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into...

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