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The Anglo-German Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution
Ritschl, Albrecht - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
Recent research on international productivity comparisons has focused on the discrepancies between benchmark … comparisons and time series extrapolations from other benchmarks. For a 1907 benchmark, Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop … benchmark is consistent with their 1907 benchmark, provided that a traditional but disputed industrial production series of …
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Status Incentives
Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
When economists study incentives in organizations,the main focus has been on using monetary paymentsin exchange for performance on specific measurabledimensions. But organizations use a wide varietyof means to motivate their workers. One suchmethod which has not been studied much to date, isthe...
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Caselli, Francesco - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-passattempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of productionand efficiency. It answers the question “how much of the cross-country income variance canbe attributed to...
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The economic (in)efficiency of devolution
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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