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An Empirical Model of the Medical Match
Agarwal, Nikhil - 2014
product of labor, with larger markdowns at more desirable programs. Therefore, a limited number of positions at high quality … market. I find that financial incentives increase the quality, but not the number of rural residents. Quantity regulations … increase the number of rural trainees, but the impact on resident quality depends on the design of the intervention …
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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development
Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve...
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...
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Ruling Out Productivity? Labor Contract Pages and Plant Performance
Ichniowski, Casey - 1984
This study documents a strong inverse relationship between number of pages of labor contracts in effect and the productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity-inhibiting effects of increases in the number and complexity of...
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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors
Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984
The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three major industrialized countries, the U.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs (capital and R&D) is derived directly from an...
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The Sources of Labor Productivity Variation in U.S. Manufacturing, 1947-80
Bernanke, Ben - 1981
This paper examines the relationship between inflation, exchange rates, and the pattern of international trade and payments in a small economy with utility-maximizing agents and a transactions demand for money. Fully anticipated inflation has real effects in the model through its role as a tax...
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Training, Tenure, and Productivity
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1981
There is substantial evidence from the literature on individual wage determination that length of service to the firm is an important determinant of earnings and thus of labor productivity, holding constant employee at-tributes such as age, sex, and education. Earnings growth associated with...
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‘Mechanization Takes Command’ : Inanimate Power and Labor Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing
Atack, Jeremy - 2020
During the nineteenth century, the US manufacturing sector shifted away from the "hand labor" mode of production, characteristic of artisan shops, to the "machine labor" of the factory. This was the focus of an extremely detailed but extraordinarily complex study by the Commissioner of Labor...
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The Life-cycle Growth of Plants : The Role of Productivity, Demand and Wedges
Eslava, Marcela - 2020
, on firm dynamics and welfare, of efficiency, input prices, demand/quality, idiosyncratic markups, and residual wedges …. Our strategy nests previous approaches limited by data availability. In our application, demand/quality is found to … dominate the cross sectional variability of sales growth, while quality-adjusted input prices and residual wedges play …
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Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle : Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
Diao, Xinshen; Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the...
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