This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output - presents a number of comprehensive surveys and assessments of the vast literature available. The collection not only includes an English translation of Verdoorn's seminal...

Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. The authors look beyond the traditional macro explanations and dig all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the...

“Drawing upon decades of her own research, Dr. Hughes provides human resource professionals with yet another useful lens to consider when designing interventions to support diversity and inclusion. Both practitioners and academics will find new ways to understand, describe and lead inclusive...

This book focuses on the gender-specific labour force participation rates across regions in India and identifies its most important determinants. Before concentrating on the Indian context, it examines the participation rates of various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Not unexpectedly, the...

This book focuses on the implications of the South African labour market dynamics including labour market reforms and fiscal policy for monetary policy and financial stability. Evidence suggests there are benefits in adopting an approach that coordinates labour market policies and reforms,...

This book investigates the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of real output per worker and the sources of output (physical capital per worker, human capital per worker, total factor productivity -TFP- and average annual hours worked) in 21 OECD countries over the period...

When economists claim that rules are coordinating devices, they do not explain how those rules operate in the reality of organizational life. Rules do not indicate behaviour, since their most important characteristic is their remoteness from the solution. Thus, rules are merely frameworks for...

1 Introduction -- 2 An Integrative Framework of Influences on Behavior -- 3 Experimental Design -- 4 Formulation of Hypotheses -- 5 Operationalization and Data Analysis Methods -- 6 Findings -- 7 Discussion and Outlook

Industrielle Cluster und ihre Wirkungsweise -- Beschreibung und Abgrenzung der Softwareindustrie in Deutschland -- Methoden zur Identifikation von industriellen Clustern -- Messung der Innovationskraft und Produktivität in der Softwareindustrie -- Softwarecluster in Deutschland gemessen an der...