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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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Team or Individual : What Determines Workers' Preferred Bonus Schemes?

Torsvik, Gaute - 2011

This paper uses data from a firm with team production to investigate the association between workers' productivity, risk aversion and preferred bonus scheme (team or individual). Standard economics make a strong prediction in this case. Workers persistently producing above the team average...

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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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The Ifo Industry Growth Accounting Database

Roehn, 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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Sources of the German Productivity Demise - Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment

Eicher, Theo S. - 2007

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed industry-level...

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Growing Productivity Without Growing Wages : The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline

Kehrig, Matthias - 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Wages, Human Capital, and Structural Transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold - 2017

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...

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Productivity Response to a Contract Change

Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor : Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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