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Employment and productivity growth in service and manufacturing sectors in France, Germany and the US
Wachter, Till von - 2001
productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604096
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New technologies and productivity growth in the euro area
Albers, Ronald; Vijselaar, Focco - 2002
This paper provides an overview of the currently available evidence on the importance of information and communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604168
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Quantifying embodied technological change
Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2002
We estimate the rate of embodied technological change directly from plant-level manufacturing data on current output and input choices along with histories on their vintages of equipment investment. Our estimates range between 8 and 17 percent for the typical U.S. manufacturing plant during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604204
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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area
Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco - 2004
Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604414
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Intra- and extra-euro area import demand for manufactures
Anderton, Robert; Baltagi, Badi H.; Skudelny, Frauke; … - 2005
The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the key determinants of intra- and extra-euro area imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604578
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Does information help recovering structural shocks from past observations?
Giannone, Domenico; Reichlin, Lucrezia - 2006
This paper asks two questions. First, can we detect empirically whether the shocks recovered from the estimates of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604678
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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam
Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015
Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418660
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ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ АНАЛИЗА ПРОДУКТИВНОСТИ И ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ CЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ
Lissitsa, Aleksej; Babiéceva, Tamara - 2003
The main aim of this Discussion Paper is to acquaint the Russian-speaking reader with theoretical issues of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299426
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Elite capture or capture elites? Lessons from the 'counter-elite' and 'co-opt-elite' approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana
Wong, Sam - 2010
level, which thus leaves room for elite capture. This paper compares and contrasts two case studies, both of which take … paper suggests that, while the - counter-elite - approach is not necessarily effective in challenging elite domination … authority of the elites and worsening poverty by implementing 'anti-poor' policies. This paper concludes that the success of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280206
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The dynamics of innovation
Garfagnini, Umberto; Strulovici, Bruno - 2010
We analyze social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model in which available technologies have correlated payoffs. Each generation experiments within a set of policies whose payoffs are initially unknown and drawn from the path of a Brownian motion with drift. Marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282918