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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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Discovering One's Talent : Learning from Academic Specialization
Malamud, Ofer - 2009
In addition to providing useful skills, education may also yield valuable information about one's tastes and talents. This paper exploits an exogenous difference in the timing of academic specialization within the British system of higher education to test whether education provides such...
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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : a Comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890
Haines, Michael R. - 2022
taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309366
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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors
Mohnen, Pierre; Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Prucha, Ingmar R. - 2021
.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
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Aging in Germany and the United States : International Comparisons
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021
subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process … percent at its peak in 2030. In this respect, changes that are occurring in Germany now may be regarded as indicative for … changes to come in the United States. Retirement, savings and housing behavior differ quite markedly between Germany and the …
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The Impact of Pollution Abatement Investment on Productivity Change : Anempirical Comparison of the U.S., Germany, and Canada
Conrad, Klaus; Morrison Paul, Catherine J. - 2021
and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our …
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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : a Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States
Fuss, Melvyn - 2012
Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …
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Real Exchange Rates and Productivity Growth in the United States and Japan
Marston, Richard C. - 2004
United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a … continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to nontraded goods in Japan. In order to keep U.S. traded goods …
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