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Do labour taxes (and their composition) affect wages in the short and in the long run?
Arpaia, Alfonso; Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2004
employment performance than decentralised ones. We apply static and dynamic panel data techniques to a panel of EU countries. Our …
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Growth, private investment and reforms : A comparative perspective
KAMEL, Ghazouani - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we empirically analyse the linkages among growth, investment and reforms in the South East Asian countries, in the North Africa and in the non CFA Sub-Saharan Africa economies over 1970-89 to 2003. These regions differ considerably among them selves as well as with regard to the...
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'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium
Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002
We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126186
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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002
This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126234
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Capital scarcities as a reason for high unemployment in the European Union
Frijters, Paul - EconWPA - 1997
needs to survive. Furthermore, in a simple general equilibrium model I show that the presence of high-productivity workers …. Unemployment and minimum living costs are also increased by an increase in population, by an increase in the relative productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561085
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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data
Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005
This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076878
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La productividad en la industria española: Evidencia microeconómica
Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - EconWPA - 2005
El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...
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Banking sector output and labour productivity in six European countries
Mörttinen, Leena - EconWPA - 2004
discussion on possible causes of productivity change in banking. We demonstrate how the banking sector’s service production can … productivity Tornqvist indices for six countries (Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy) over a period varying … from 11 to 20 years. According to the results, Finnish banking sector productivity has improved via a substantial reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134839
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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118707
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
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