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endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at the industry level that magnify countries’ comparative advantage. Focusing on the …
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A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows straightforward derivation of the general equilibrium effects on...
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What factors underlie industry differences in research intensity and productivity growth? We develop a multisector … growth model using standard parameters to capture the main factors considered in the empirical R&D and productivity growth … literature. Along the balanced growth path, we find that the primary factor behind industry differences in productivity growth is …
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growth of organization capital did not have significant effects on productivity growth. …
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We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the production of sector …-specific knowledge. In the model, we find that long run differences in total factor productivity growth across sectors are independent of …
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Background 'Transactional sex' was regarded by the mid-1990s as an important determinant of HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Little attention has been paid to what the terms used to denote transactional sex suggest about how it is understood. This study provides a nuanced...
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This article explores the contradictory and contested but closely interlocking efforts of NGOs and the state in planning for land reform in South Africa. As government policy has come increasingly to favor the better-off who are potential commercial farmers, so NGO efforts have been directed,...
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United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …
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This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …
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