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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927189
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Eigenvalue Productivity : Measurement of Individual Contributions in Teams
Müller, Julia - 2017
While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944882
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What Does Trade Openness Measure?
Fujii, Eiji - 2017
An empirical measure of trade openness is defined as the ratio of total trade to GDP, and represents a convenient variable routinely used for cross-country studies on a variety of issues. However, the effects that the crude measure captures remain ambiguous, making it difficult to interpret the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946850
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics : Theory, Measurement and Empirics
Moreno-Cruz, Juan - 2014
incentives for economic activity to concentrate. Our theory provides a novel scaling law; a magnification effect; and reveals a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051291
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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source
Hanousek, Jan - 2008
Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773476
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the … the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
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An Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2021
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...
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Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Falk, Armin - 2010
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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Kind of Black : The Musicians' Labour Market in Italy
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2021
It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians’ labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. We notice how the presence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316321
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The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important : On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists
Ortmann, Andreas - 2010
To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the...
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