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raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … current targeted support. Capital taxation should be streamlined to improve incentives for entrepreneurship and growth. The …
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Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business …
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Using plant-level data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the fiscal years from 1998-99 through 2007-08, this study provides plant-level cross-state/time-series evidence of the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labour...
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the studies of East Asian economic growth. First, in the 1980s, US companies made enormous IT investments, but little … productivity gain was observed. Second, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of “Newly Industrialising Countries” (NICs) in East … TFP growth tends to decrease with faster capital accumulation. This negative correlation is reproduced in simulations …
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This paper presents a productivity growth measure that explicitly accounts for natural capital as an input factor and … does not take bad outputs into account will underestimate productivity growth, whenever countries devote some inputs to … productivity growth as otherwise the effectiveness of environmental policies in promoting production processes that make more …
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This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the paper uses industry-level data from a set of OECD countries and examines whether different industries are affected differently by taxation. Investment is shown to respond...
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and financial policies to incorporate fully the implications of the rapid pro-cyclical growth in financial leverage and …
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semi–formal and informal economy had a significant contribution to the expansion of the private sector. Productivity growth … was strong, but labour utilisation remained very low. Looking forward, higher employment and productivity growth will not …
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In a majority of OECD countries, GDP growth over the past three decades has been associated with growing income … disparities. To shed some lights on the potential sources of trade-offs between growth and equity, this paper investigates the … long-run impact of structural reforms on GDP per capita and household income distribution. Pro-growth reforms can be …
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legislation could also raise productivity growth for a while in many OECD and non-OECD G20 countries, although the effects are …
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