Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 229
Cover Image
Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence
Mulder, Peter; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325188
Cover Image
International Comparisons of Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Performance: Stylised Facts and Decomposition of Trends
Mulder, Peter; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2004
This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325213
Cover Image
Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors
Mulder, Peter; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325244
Cover Image
Dynamics and Determinants of Energy Intensity in the Service Sector: A Cross-Country Analysis, 1980–2005
Mulder, Peter; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Pfeiffer, Birte - 2013
We present a detailed analysis of energy intensity developments across 23 service sectors in 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2005. We find that the shift towards a service economy has contributed to lower overall energy intensity levels in the OECD, but this contribution would have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326299
Cover Image
Structural Change and Convergence of Energy Intensity across OECD Countries, 1970-2005
Mulder, Peter; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2012
aggregate energy intensity dynamics. A convergence analysis reveals that only after 1995 cross-country variation in aggregate … convergence in Services. Moreover, we find evidence for the hypothesis that across sectors lagging countries are catching-up with … leading countries, with rates of convergence on average being higher in Services than in Manufacturing. Aggregate convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326376
Cover Image
Female admission cap in higher education: The case of Iran
Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021
We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran's public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender, cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797231
Cover Image
The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ponce, Juan; Schady, Norbert - 2008
This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325756
Cover Image
Import competition and domestic transport costs
Caragliu, Andrea; Gerritse, Michiel - 2022
With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427598
Cover Image
Capital Market Failure, Adverse Selection and Equity Financing of Higher Education
Jacobs, Bas; van Wijnbergen, Sweder J.G. - 2005
We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some students with socia1lyprofitable investments in human capita1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325581
Cover Image
Human Capital, Firm Capabilities, and Innovation
Bhaskarbhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak; Peeters, Thomas - 2017
Are differences in inventor productivity due to differences in inventors’ skills or differences in the capabilities of the firms they work for? We analyze a 37-year panel that tracks the patenting of U.S. inventors and find strong evidence for serial correlation in inventors’ productivity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819508