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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 … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …

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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance

Pencavel, John H. - 2012

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon - 2014

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2021

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...

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A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution : The Case of the Translog Cost Function

Christev, Atanas; Featherstone, Allen M. - 2021

This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The curvature of the Allen-Uzawa matrix is the same as the curvature of the Hessian matrix. Intuitively...

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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...

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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market IncentiveEffects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...

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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty?Evidence from South Africa

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth:The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption andRegulations Across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds importanteffects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent,infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paperfocuses on how the impact...

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