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Elasticity of substitution and technical progress: Is there a misspecification problem?

Saltari, Enrico; Federici, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In Saltari et al. (2012, 2013) we estimated a dynamic model of the Italian economy. The main result of those papers is that the weakness of the Italian economy in the last two decades is due to the total factor productivity slowdown. In those models the information and communication technology...

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Elasticity of substitution and the slowdown of the Italian productivity

Saltari, Enrico; Federici, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In Saltari et al. (2012, 2013) we estimated a dynamic model of the Italian economy. The main result of those papers is that the weakness of the Italian economy in the last two decades has been the total factor productivity slowdown. The aim of this paper is to investigate the roots of this...

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Elasticity of substitution and the slowdown of the Italian productivity

Saltari, Enrico; Federici, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to investigate the roots of the Italian total factor productivity slowdown. The analysis focusses on the specific pattern of technical progress in determining the TFP dynamics. This analysis can not be done with the Cobb-Douglas technology but requires the employ of a...

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Globalization and Structural Changes in the Indian Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Production Functions

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

India brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. Structural changes in terms of employment of labour … substitution of capital for labour in almost all states. In the pre-globalization period the industries experienced increasing …

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North-South trade and basic needs

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990

This paper examines the role of the international market in mediating North-South relations and analyzes how the market works in distributing the gains from trade. It is argued that the international market does not always provide an adequate engine of growth for the South if that region...

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Long-term labour productivity and GDP projections for the EU25 Member States : a production function framework

Carone, Giuseppe; Denis, Cécile; Mc Morrow, Kieran; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper presents the results of long run labour productivity and GDP growth rate projections (until 2050) for each … employment and labour productivity. These base case projections reflect the working assumption of “no policy change … population is fairly limited, although it is accepted that the labour productivity of an individual is likely to decline after …

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Islamic Finance: Debt versus equity An empirical Issue

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The current financial turmoil has led many writers in the area of Islamic finance to revive an old edict in Islamic finance – no risk, no gain. I have discussed this axiom in my earlier writings and have not come across anything in recent advocacy of its proponents that could make me change my...

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دور التغير التكنولوجى فى الطلب على العمالة الزراعية فى مصر

Shehata, Emad Abd Elmessih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The agricultural sector plays an important and a vital role in achieving the economic growth, furthermore, the labor input is considered one of the most important inputs in the economy, especially in the agricultural sector, which contribute in increasing production. Achieving the economic...

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Managerial spans, industry tasks and ICT: evidence from the U.S.

Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The knowledge theoretic view of organization of production postulates that ICT, tasks and hierarchies intertwine … the knowledge hierarchy literature can hence be tested and the findings largely reverberate with theory. First, ICT … utilization narrows organizations yet CT expands middle management. Second, industry tasks govern organizational outcomes …

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Novas Formas de Organização do Trabalho nas Micro e Pequenas Empresas

Santos, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The implementation of new forms of organization of the work (NFWO) has been recurrently applied in the medium and large corporations, especially those whose activity is centered in traditional industrial sectors. With virtues and inconvenients the NFWO seems to be apparently to be kept out of...

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