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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073086
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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China
Harris, Richard I. D. - 2017
linked to a period of liberalization. We then investigate the relationship between political connections, state ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964690
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Firm Response to Competitive Shocks : Evidence from China's Minimum Wage Policy
Hau, Harald - 2017
The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947448
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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - CESifo - 2013
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706000
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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2010
and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727302
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The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - CESifo - 2014
of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital ac-cumulation, income and … inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … decreases and the liberalization path has stochastic dominance over the Baseline-As-Usual. These results are very robust to our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736743
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao - 2013
This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075128
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777731
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Something Out of Nothing? Neoclassical Growth and the 'Trivial' Steady State
Hakenes, Hendrik - 2006
A common perception about the neoclassical growth model is that an economy devoid of capital cannot evolve to strictly positive levels of output if capital is essential. We challenge this view by positing a broad class of production functions, encompassing the neoclassical production function,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780464
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Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy
Kreickemeier, Udo - 2017
In their famous paper on the “Big Push”, Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1989) show how the combination of increasing returns to scale at the firm level and pecuniary externalities can give rise to a poverty trap, thereby formalising an old idea due to Rosenstein-Rodan (1943). We develop in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954362