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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271226
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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999166
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262110
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262477
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006
productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267745
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A microfoundation for production functions: assignment of heterogenous workers to heterogenous jobs
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2008
In very different fields of economics, economic inference and policy evaluation require economists to parametrize a production function that links measures of input factors to measures of output. While doing so, strong assumptions are implicitly made about microeconomic variables governing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268825
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The assignment of workers to tasks, wage distribution and technical change: a critical review
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2008
This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268930
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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269183
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth: the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269407
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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
tightly related to the distribution of skills in the population. Productivity effects can be over or under estimated by wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293165