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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms
Simachev, Yuri; Kuzyk, Mikhail; Feygina, Vera - 2013
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153492
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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries
Bah, El-hadj M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Dierences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross- country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622016
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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A Three-Sector Model of Structural Transformation and Economic Development
Bah, El-hadj M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Growth accounting exercises point to aggregate TFP dierences as the dominant source of the large cross-country income dierences. In this paper, I ask which sectors account for the aggregate TFP gap between rich and poor countries. Data limitations for developing countries have led researchers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789425
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New indices of labour productivity growth: Baumol’s disease revisited
Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We introduce two new indexes of labour productivity growth. Both indexes are intended to capture the shift in the short … to the U.S. industry data of the years 1970–2005, we compare newly proposed index of labour productivity growth with the … growth of average labour productivity over periods and across industries. We revisit the hypothesis of Baumol’s disease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025266
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The underdevelopment of service industry in China: an empirical study of cities in Yangtze River Delta
Zheng, Jianghuai; Zhang, Lili; Wang, Yu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
” caused by service sector. This paper studies the influence of economic activity density on labor productivity in service … cities of. The results indicate that increase of labor productivity in service sector is driven by capital investment and …
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North-South trade and basic needs
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990
This paper examines the role of the international market in mediating North-South relations and analyzes how the market works in distributing the gains from trade. It is argued that the international market does not always provide an adequate engine of growth for the South if that region...
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Growth, Structural Change, and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from India
Sen Gupta, Abhijit; Hasan, Rana; Lamba, Sneha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We examine the relationship between growth in labor productivity and poverty reduction through the lens of changes in … productivity sector is an important channel through which increases in aggregate productivity translate into poverty reduction. We … also find that the importance of this channel of productivity growth, termed structural change by recent literature, varies …
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The Analysis of ‘Leading Sectors’: A Long term view of 18 Latin American economies
Acevedo, Alejandra; Mold, Andrew; Perez Caldentey, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the 1950s and 60s, in Latin America structuralism was considered as the preeminent form of analysis of economic development and growth. Nowadays, in contrast, as a mode of analysis structuralism is distinctly unfashionable, and has been superceded by newer endogenous growth theories, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105663
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The impact of economic policy and structural change on gender employment inequality in Latin America, 1990-2010
Seguino, Stephanie; Braunstein, Elissa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policy and structural change on gender inequality in employment and economic opportunities for a set of 18 Latin American countries over the time period 1990-2010. We use three different methodologies to explore this question:...
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