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Neoclassical convergence versus technological catch-up : a contribution for reaching a consensus
Desdoigts, Alain - 2000
world income distribution dynamics. Formal statistical hypothesis tests allow us to discriminate between two competing … evidence suggests that the high social returns to investment in equipment (as opposed to structure) reflect technology transfer … contributes to the polarization of the world income distribution. -- economic growth ; neoclassical convergence ; technological …
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Growth regression and counterfactual income dynamics
Desdoigts, Alain - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611551
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Beyond "manucentrism" : some fresh facts about job and worker flows
Bingley, Paul; Eriksson, Tor; Werwatz, Axel; … - 1999
This paper gives a comprehensive picture of job and worker flows for the entire Danish economy. We exploit a unique central administrative register encompassing all employees of all workplaces across all sectors throughout two business cycles. This enables us to broaden the focus of the previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581098
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Marginal employment - a dead end? : a survival analysis based on West German spelldata
Kolb, Jürgen; Werwatz, Axel - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612042
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Fragmentation, globalization and labor markets
Burda, Michael C.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2001 - Rev.
Fragmentation of the value-added-chain is modeled as the reaction of monopolistically competitive firms to the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility in an integrated trading environment. Since fragmentation requires high-skilled labor, this form of globalization can induce labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614300
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Presents or investments? : an experimental analysis
Genîzî, Ûrî; Güth, Werner; Verboven, Frank - 1998
.’s investment game by introducing an upper bound to what a contributor can be repaid afterwards. By varying this upper bound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578011
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Optimal consumption choice for ratchet investors
Riedel, Frank - 2001
The utility maximization problem of "ratchet investors" who do not tolerate any decline in their consumption rate is solved explicitly for all felicity functions in a Markovian framework which includes Brownian motion and Poisson processes as special cases. The optimal consumption plan turns out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616776
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Trust and reciprocity in the investment game with indirect reward
Güth, Werner; Königstein, Manfred; Marchand, Nadège; … - 2000
contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al … investor may only be rewarded by a third person who did not receive his investment. Furthermore we investigate the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612013
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Non-uniformity of job-matching in a transition economy : a nonparametric analysis for the Czech Republic
Profit, Stefan; Sperlich, Stefan - 1998
explorative study aims to shed some light into the black-box of the matching technology by applying nonparametric estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009574874
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Nonparametric estimation and testing of interaction in additive models
Sperlich, Stefan; Tjostheim, Dag; Yang, Lijian - 1998
Estimation …
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