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We carried out a household survey in Khartoum state in 2001 to analyse the characteristics of those who receive free public health services and to ascertain whether there are any impediments to cost recovery policies for health care use. Data were collected through interviews based on an adapted...
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The Brazilian organic food sector has experienced important growth during the last two decades. Brazilian smallholders … Institutional Economics and socio-anthropology, we analyze six experiences of Brazilian smallholders who converted to organics in … inclusion of smallholders into all three food systems. We confirmed the arguments in support of pursuing the agroecological …
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Während sich Moskau im Herbst 1993 unter und Ober der Erde in einen Straßenmarkt verwandelt hatte, waren die Strategien und Perspektiven der russischen Betriebe von der Zerschlagung von Staatsmonopolen, Privatisierungen und Joint Ventures geprägt. Mit welchen Vorstellungen die Beschäftigten...
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threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …
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IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …
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IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …
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Short-term increasing returns to production factors are usually found in empirical studies. We argue they can be due to omitted variables, particularly the intensity of factor utilisation. Thanks to original French firm-level data (1992-2008), we show how increasing returns to scale disappear...
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of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …
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A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a …
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This documents aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment …. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a … sustainability productivity index. …
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