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Элементы региональной диагностики (на примере Краснодарского края)

Zaytsev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The work considers perspective ways of technology borrowing on industry-regional level in Russia and offers preliminary methodology for identification of suitable technologies for particular region. Methodology is based on labor productivity comparisons. For this purposes productivity levels for...

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Региональная диагностика эффективности отраслевых производств (на примере сельского хозяйства).

Zaytsev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article is devoted to assessment and comparative analysis of industry efficiency in both country and (Russian) region levels. Also the analysis of perspective sources for technology borrowing is presented. On a country level I analyze efficiency of agriculture, using mainly (among other)...

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Межстрановой анализ отраслевой производительности труда в 1991-2008 годах

Zaytsev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

group of countries includes USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and number of major European economies. The …

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The new economics of the brain drain

Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers) from a developing country to a developed country is detrimental to the developing country. However, this perception need not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a...

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A social proximity explanation of the reluctance to assimilate

Fan, C. Simon; Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

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Душевой ВВП и производительность труда в России: было ли догоняющее развитие?

Zaytsev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Using Russian data, it is showт that different assessment techniques of cathing-up development lead to opposite conclusions: according to current PPPs we have seen the cathing-up in per capita GDP during 1990-2012 period, but according to constant PPPs – we have not. It is argued that current...

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On the economic architecture of the workplace: Repercussions of social comparisons among heterogeneous workers

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the impact on a firm’s profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers’ earnings, when … workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage … deprivation is to increase the optimal level of effort. Consequently, the firm’s profits are higher, its wage rates remain …

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Migration for degrading work as an escape from humiliation

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two “bads:” that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging in humiliating work away from home. Balancing between these two...

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Endogenous Selection of Comparison Groups, Human Capital Formation, and Tax Policy

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...

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Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem

Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The asylum seekers who choose the level of investment in the host-country-specific human capital, and the government of the host country that chooses the probability of naturalization are modeled as optimizing economic agents in a setting not of their choosing.

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