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An Empirical Model of the Medical Match
Agarwal, Nikhil - 2014
product of labor, with larger markdowns at more desirable programs. Therefore, a limited number of positions at high quality … market. I find that financial incentives increase the quality, but not the number of rural residents. Quantity regulations … increase the number of rural trainees, but the impact on resident quality depends on the design of the intervention …
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Embodying embodiment in a structural, macroeconomic input-output model
Wilson, Daniel J. (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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"Losing ground" : Japanese labour productivity and unit labour cost in manufacturing in comparison to the US
Inklaar, Robert (contributor); Wu, Hongda Harry (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Determinants of long-run labor productivity growth : a selective survey with some new empirical results
Spiegel, Mark - 1994
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New estimates of labour productivity in the manufacturing sectors of Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, 1996
Monnikhof, Erik (contributor); Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Brazil and Mexico's manufacturing performance in international perspective, 1970 - 1998
Mulder, Nanno (contributor); Montout, Sylvie (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development
Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve...
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...
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Ruling Out Productivity? Labor Contract Pages and Plant Performance
Ichniowski, Casey - 1984
This study documents a strong inverse relationship between number of pages of labor contracts in effect and the productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity-inhibiting effects of increases in the number and complexity of...
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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors
Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984
The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three major industrialized countries, the U.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs (capital and R&D) is derived directly from an...
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