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Can the UAE avoid the oil curse by economic diversification?

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

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The Spanish productivity puzzle in the Great Recession

Hospido, Laura; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2015

evolution of the total factor productivity (TFP) and to composition effects. By combining the information at the firm level on … agreement at the firm level and access to external markets are positively related to TFP performance during the whole period. In … addition, we estimate that firm TFP was negatively correlated with the share of temporary workers during the expansion period …

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Time is on my side : relational contracts and aggregate welfare

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Plüger, Michael - 2018

This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...

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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise … their TFP. These findings are consistent with a market in which incumbents learn about market conditions but face high …

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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Internal adjustment costs of firm-specific factors and the neoclassical theory of the firm

Chetty, V. Karuppan; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by adapting raw capital purchased in the market. Analysts rarely observe each sector separately....

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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008

; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …

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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2008

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …

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Determinants of poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine

Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …. -- Poverty ; Transition ; survey ; Ukraine …

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Informal employment relationships and labor market segmentation in transition economies: evidence from Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor); … - 2007

new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some … empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and the validity of the three schools of thought in the literature on the … associated with movements into this state. -- Labor market segmentation ; transition economies ; Ukraine …

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