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The present study analyses the location of new economic activities in the 51 Greek prefectures (NUTS III level) as the outcome of agglomeration economies and other factors that are acknowledged as determinants of new firm location. Cross-section data referring to the location choices of firms in...
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grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …
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national income is questioned because of their low productivity. The present paper tries to identify important determinants of … productivity level in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) and suggest appropriate policies for augmenting productivity levels … determinants of productivity. A close association between productivity levels and emolument per worker is also observed. Policies …
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looking at the total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Furthermore, the study also investigate the efficiency in commercial …
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The aim of this paper is to explore the structure of cities as a function of labor differentiation, gains to trade, a fixed cost for constructing the transportation network, a variable cost of commodity transport, and the commuting costs of consumers. Firms use different types of labor to...
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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,...
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and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies … conducted so far focus on the disaggregate level and put the stress on the productivity side alone. Here I carry out both the … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …
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This paper sheds new light on the causes of the unemployment upsurge in Japan during the “fading 1990s”, an … decline in productivity growth, we find the active and expansionary measures undertaken by the government had an overall …
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This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use …, and a lesser but significant effect of workers’ accessibility on firms’ productivity. … of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in …
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A lack of commonly accepted benchmarks for hedge fund performance has permitted hedge fund managers to attribute to skill returns that may actually accrue from market risk factors and illiquidity. Recent innovations in hedge fund replication permits us to estimate the extent of this...
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