This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and …

level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady … samples. -- labor productivity ; economic development ; education ; gender ; Turkey …

role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …

easing entrepreneurial investments for credit-constrained individuals whose investment possibilities depend on their income …