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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Paul, Saumik - 2020
-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … significant only in agriculture, which can be attributed to the heavily underreported income from self-employed workers in …
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Labor Productivity and Vocational Training : Evidence from Europe
Sala, Hector - 2011
rate of labor productivity in Europe between 1999 and 2005. We find that one extra hour of training per employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117615
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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency : Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2010
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149610
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995608
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The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2006
increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a quasi-experimental set-up and exploit the different timing of the reforms in … legal reforms account for about 20 percent of the increase in divorce rates in Europe between 1960 and 2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780480
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Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics
Lee, Ronald D. - 2019
Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...
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The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias : Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand
Boonmanunt, Suparee - 2020
In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing – among low-income rice farmers in rural Thailand, who cultivate and harvest...
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Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities Through Vocational Education
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2011
During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in...
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Commuting Time and Labour Supply : A Causal Effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2011
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on...
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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
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