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Productivity in the Transportation Sector
Gordon, Robert J. - 2007
productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment … data reduce the magnitude of the post-1973 productivity slowdown in transportation MFP growth from a previously reported 2 …
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012
The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112835
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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance
Heissel, Jennifer - 2019
We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
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What's Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?
Choe, Derrick; Oettl, Alexander; Seamans, Robert - 2022
In this chapter we draw from existing literature and a range of statistics to describe economic, entrepreneurial and innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future work, and argue for more research on the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308125
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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2011
Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one … fixed effects. We show adding human capital variables and the wage bill decreases the ratio of the 90th to 10th productivity … quantiles from 3.27 to 2.68 across eight Danish manufacturing and service industries. The productivity dispersion decrease is …
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Deductions from the Export Basket : Capabilities, Wealth and Trade
Sutton, John - 2011
that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for …. This suggests that the main challenge for low-income countries is to raise quality and productivity in their existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129123
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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : Measurement and Welfare Implications
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2011
both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew …
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A Global View of Productivity Growth in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2011
How does a country's productivity growth a¤ect worldwide real incomes through international trade? In this paper, we … take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth. Our framework … the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth are small causing the real incomes of China's trading partners to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130268
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Under Pressure : Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under Nclb
Reback, Randall - 2011
The most sweeping federal education law in decades, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, requires states to administer standardized exams and to punish schools that do not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the fraction of students passing these exams. While the literature on school...
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