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, namely productivity, employment, real wages and investment, at the state level and over the period 1974-1998. Our results … state real wages and productivity, total highway length is a key variable in determining the level of investment in fixed …
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The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...
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wages, rent and profit, is resolved. It is shown that far from being limited to the ancient form of society of the hunter …
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This paper provides a simple proof of the result that if a production function is homogeneous, displays non-increasing returns to scale, is increasing and quasiconcave, then it is concave. If the function is strictly quasiconcave or one-to-one, homogeneous, displays decreasing returns to scale...
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productivity analysis of the small and medium scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan. This will unleash the role of the various … role in hand holding and development of SMEs in Pakistan so that productivity of factors of production can be increased …. Especially the measures should be taken to increase the productivity of women who make 52% of Pakistan’s population. …
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This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …
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Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth …
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A hot topic among Islamic economists is the debt versus equity debate. Which of the two are more in line with justice and equality? Which of them is more productive in fulfilling the greater objectives of the Shariah? This paper is divided into sections. After the introduction, it is followed by...
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regression techniques. They find considerable heterogeneity across the distribution of labor productivity and wages, with the … and presented standard quantile estimates to investigate heterogeneity in pay-performance impacts on labor productivity … and wages. In a second stage, the endogeneity of PRP was taken into account by using instrumental variable quantile …
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This paper analyses the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) agreements on labour productivity and wages. Its main … contribution is thus to investigate the effects of PRP on both dimensions, i.e. productivity and distribution, whereas most of the … estimates, also controlling for a rich set of covariates. Furthermore, the comparison of productivity estimates with those for …
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