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Is there a trade-off between employment and productivity?
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207261
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623829
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Is productive entrepreneurship getting scarcer? : a reflection on the contemporary relevance of Baumol's typology
Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023
We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335837
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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941706
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
Mel, Suresh de; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801015
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Health and economic growth
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2018
Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949006
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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2018
Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949024
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The UK's productivity puzzle
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2015
unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281607