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A sequential Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas - 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 …

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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Information and communication technologies and skill upgrading: The role of internal vs. external labour markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - 2011

Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...

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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability

Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - 2012

We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Although workers in more...

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Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...

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Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...

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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971?96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … productivity, to a ?Marxian? zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

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