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structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …
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income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …
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zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel …
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Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf … und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der …
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …
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between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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