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Do Markets Favour Women's Human Capital More Than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666862
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Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
Lizal, Lubomir; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We analyse investment behaviour of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in 1992–5. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behaviour varies across ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666955
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A Comparative Look at Labour Mobility in the Czech Republic : Where Have All the Workers Gone?
Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labour. We find the Czech … who change jobs have changed sector of employment. Although flows out of employment are small relative to other transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789134
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Mapping prices into productivity in multisector growth models
Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Two issues related to mapping a multi-sector model into a reduced-form value-added model are often neglected: the composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between the productivity indices for value added and for gross output. We illustrate their significance for growth accounting...
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The Sources of Long-run Growth in Spain 1850-2000
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro; Rosés, Joan R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Golden Age and mitigated the deceleration during the transition to democracy years (1975-86). Since the accession to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124439
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Structural Change and Europe's Golden Age
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Most of the countries of Western Europe grew at unprecedented rates from the late 1940s until the early 1970s. Another feature of this period was dramatic structural change, as employment shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and services. This Paper uses growth accounting to measure the...
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The Sources of Long-term Economic Growth for Turkey, 1880-2005
Altug, Sumru G.; Filiztekin, Alpay; Pamuk, Sevket - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper considers the sources of long-term economic growth for Turkey over the period 1880-2005. The period in question covers the decline and eventual dissolution of the former Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the new Turkish Republic in 1923. Hence, the paper provides a unique look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504216
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Investment-Specific Technical Change in the US (1947-2000): Measurement and Macroeconomic Consequences
Cummins, Jason G; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
By extrapolating Gordon’s (1990) measures of the quality-bias in the official price indexes, we construct quality-adjusted price indexes for 24 types of equipment and software (E&S) from 1947 to 2000 and use them to measure technical change at the aggregate and at the industry level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504732
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Twentieth Century Growth
Crafts, Nicholas; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper surveys the experience of economic growth in the 20th century with a focus on technological change at the frontier together with issues related to success and failure in catch-up growth. A detailed account of growth performance based on historical national accounts data is given and...
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Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality
Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662236