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With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
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improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier.<P>Les réglementations du marché des produits dans les secteurs amont limitent-elles la …
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Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions, rapidly narrowed the productivity … reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the literature has focused mainly …
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market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry … and labour markets. Aggregate productivity patterns are largely the result of within-firm performance. But, the … play an important role. Industry productivity performance is negatively affected by strict product market regulations …
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. Alternatively, productivity in the government sector would have to increase substantially.<P>Conséquences sur le marché du travail …
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This paper examines the development of Russian industry in comparison with that of Ukrainian industry during 1995–2004 in an effort to ascertain to what extent, if any, Russian manufacturing showed signs of succumbing to ‘Dutch disease’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with...
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of productivity have been low in many domestically oriented sectors and consumer welfare has suffered under high prices …
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Norwegian growth has been strong over the past decade. This development has been supported by the off-shore sector, but depleting oil reserves implies that growth will have to rely increasingly on the mainland economy. Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic...
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Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions, rapidly narrowed the productivity … reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the literature has focused mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446606
market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry … and labour markets. Aggregate productivity patterns are largely the result of within-firm performance. But, the … play an important role. Industry productivity performance is negatively affected by strict product market regulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443986