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plausibility checks and applies them to recently published Swiss labour productivity growth figures. Although the proposed checks …
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to our results, discrimination in politics is important to individual well-being. Overall, men and women are more … satisfied with their lives when societies become more equal. Disaggregated analysis suggests that our results for men are driven … by the effect of equality on men with middle and high incomes, and those on the political left. To the contrary, women …
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impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and other than green technologies on green patent activities …. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock is positively related to green patent activities with a … considerably large marginal value. The country's green knowledge stock and the green knowledge stock of the same industry in other …
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Married male workers are found to have a lower incidence of overeducation. A theoretical explanation for this phenomenon is lacking. We test in our study whether the traditional specialisation of spouses' time between home and market production tends to improve a husband's jobeducation-match...
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labour productivity of Swiss manufacturing firms in the period 1994-2002. The data used in this study come from the KOF panel …-cut positive effect of innovation on labour productivity. …
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how a firm's training propensity correlated with its labour productivity. To this end, we specified an equation for … training propensity and an equation for labour productivity, which included as an additional production factor the endogenized …
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Nordhaus (2008) has developed a testing strategy for what he calls Baumol's diseases, by which name he designates a number of by-products of structural change that are unwanted from an economic policy perspective. He finds that the U.S. economy is strongly affected by the diseases. This paper...
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further step, we analyzed the impact of apprentice training on labour productivity when apprentice training is considered as … finding was that training propensity and/or training intensity correlate negatively with labour productivity. …
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wage increases in excess of productivity growth. I tested this hypothesis empirically using data from a panel of 19 OECD …
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