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International Comparisons of Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Performance: Stylised Facts and Decomposition of Trends
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144433
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Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795576
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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137179
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The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ponce, Juan; Schady, Norbert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136929
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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasize the relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospective students’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinants of university entrance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137033
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042232
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Imperfect Information, Lagged Labor Adjustment and the Great Moderation
Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964451
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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...
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Global Aging and Economic Convergence: A Real Option or Still a Case of Science Fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144475
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A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary Two-Percent
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144527