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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2015

The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...

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Annuity Market Imperfection, Retirement and Economic Growth

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2009

We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...

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Ageing and Productivity Growth : Are There Macro-Level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?

Werding, Martin - 2021

Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...

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Cointegration of Matched Home Purchases and Rental Price Indexes -- Evidence from Singapore

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2015

This paper exploits the homogeneity feature of the Singapore private residential condominium market and constructs …

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Effects of U.S. Inflation on Hong Kong and Singapore

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Yuen, Jude - 2021

this paper, we examine how inflation rates in two small open economies, namely Hong Kong and Singapore, interact with those … model is used to study the inflation dynamics. It is found that Hong Kong and Singapore inflation rates, but not the U ….S. one, respond to the error correction term. Compared with Singapore, the Hong Kong inflation rate is more responsive to U …

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The Ifo Industry Growth Accounting Database

Röhn, Oliver - 2007

In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset types in 52 different industries. The industry sources...

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Paying for what kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs

Jones, Daniel B. - 2018

How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions....

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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...

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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...

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Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity - A Field Experiment

Heinz, Matthias - 2018

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...

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