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Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity
Askenazy, Philippe - 2021
This paper proposes a basic model with two types of capital: productive capital directly involved in the production process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies workers' job strain, while wage recognition encourages their engagement. Firms face a double...
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In...
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor
Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip - 2021
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides … comparison, broadband internet is a substitute for workers without high school diploma, lowering their marginal productivity …
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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality : Insights from Studies on Transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2016
From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982122
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087408
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'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing Across Countries
Naudé, Wim - 2013
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...
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The Post-Unification German Labor Market
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bonin, Holger - 2021
This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in the last decade, East Germans were faced with very high levels of joblessness that considering labor market exits and active labor market policy, are only partly reported as...
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Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters
Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable...
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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