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This paper presents a modified national accounting system tailored to a description of Research and Development (R&D)in the national economy. The main differences with the standard national accounts are some changes in the basic concepts (e.g. own-account production of R&D is considered as...
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Labor productivity in developed countries is analyzed and modeled. Modeling is based on our previous finding that the … rate of labor force participation is a unique function of GDP per capita. Therefore, labor productivity is fully determined … for the U.S. The evolution of labor force productivity is predictable at least at an 11-year horizon. …
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inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of … fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed an inverse relationship with the proportionate farm area allocated to …
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. Host country equity participation in foreign firms is consistent with higher unconditional productivity spillovers to …
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Exploring the relationship evidenced by literature between FDI and trade, a non-parametric approach has been developed in order to create an index that reflects the nations' capacity to generate imports and exports from FDI inflows and outflows. Thus, a ranking (FDI-Trade Index Ranking) has been...
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The connection between age and productivity is a widely discussed topic in the empirical literature. The present paper …'s aim is to contribute to the explanation of an apparant lower productivity of older individuals. If we introduce … uncertainty about the future working conditions depending on present success, a decrease of productivity over the working life can …
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foreign investments on the productivity of domestic firms. Using pooled regression analysis with fixed effects for the period … 2002 – 2005, we find that: (a) foreign investments have significant positive effect on productivity of domestic firms … are controlled for in the cross-section productivity regression, the relationship between the share of foreign technical …
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Economic information, such as interpersonal relationships, and lead are usually placed at the basis of the facts and circumstances must always be based on a economic theory well argued. Relations between employees and managers should provide related information in terms of social issues,...
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …
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