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Unemployment and Productivity Growth : An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Pannenberg, Markus; Bräuninger, Michael - 2021
unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …
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Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries
Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, L.; Venn, Danielle - 2021
This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …-in-differences" framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - 2021
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country
Al‐Abri, Almukhtar S. - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914328
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Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth : Theory and Evidence from India
Das, Pranab Kumar - 2016
Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the mean age close to 27 years as of present times....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999017
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Sectoral Cognitive Skills, R&D, and Productivity : A Cross-Country Cross-Sector Analysis
Sasso, Simone - 2017
, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …
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Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration : International Evidence
Grossmann, Volker - 2012
This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104931
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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Oh, Donghyun - 2009
This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159334
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014
, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068471
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António; Cabral … - 2021
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …
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