Showing 1 - 10 of 177
This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. For this purpose we calibrate a model with different equilibria descriptive of the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250613
Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233888
covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate that it is advantageous to adjust the stock of labour and capital … simultaneously. The cost advantage of simultaneous changes is small for capital but is large for labour. The empirical results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765234
real wages relative to productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703257
and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959583
accumulation of society-specific human capital. Thus, they operated more efficiently with respect to their production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646291
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791524
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010704408
Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094086
Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269602