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Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021

We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...

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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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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

effect of individualism on income per worker and total factor productivity as well as on innovation. The baseline genetic …

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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

Bloom, David E. - 2020

Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...

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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation : The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris - 2014

productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for centralized wage formation where it can hide behind less productive firms …

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Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality

Cortes, Guido Matias; Lerche, Adrian; Schönberg, Uta; … - 2023

We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...

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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study

Tansel, Aysit; 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...

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