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The service sector is an avenue for economic transformation as not all countries have a competitive edge in manufacturing. The growing literature on service sector primarily focuses on its development in the US and Europe and on Asian emerging service economies like India. Not as much attention...
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sunk cost behavior, rather than algorithmic thinking (fluid intelligence) or the personality trait of openness. We …
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the economic factors, greater economic prosperity increased the shadow sector, while greater openness to trade and a …
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fostering belonging and uniqueness at work and factor 2 'Challenge and Openness' captures being open to challenge and being … Openness' is positively related to all work outcomes studied including income. This link to productivity is intuitive for …
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Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to...
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This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
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This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …
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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained from the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two...
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The impact of imports from low-wage countries on domestic labor market outcomes has been a hotly debated issue for decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have experienced contemporaneous increases in the volume of...
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