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described inthe next part. Such variables could include: labor cost and all itsimplications; capital as one of the most …
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contributions made when a surrogate is used for technology. The surrogate used in this case is the ratio of net to gross capital … dependent variable while Gross Capital and Labor Hours are the independent variables in a multiple regression estimation of the … be incorporated financially in a measure of capital, whether gross or net. …
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Quality of life and productivity are two important measures in health outcomes that usually require the use of self-reported surveys for accurate assessment. Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been established as an important field in the past century, and many psychometrically...
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The subject of labor unions in Latin America provokes a variety of diverse and strongly held views. While some see unions as a way to protect workers' rights and ensure an equitable distribution of income, others see unions as a drain of productivity or an intrusion of politics into the...
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This paper uses two sources of information and different methodologies to analyze the causal effect of product and process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product...
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the … important increase in job and capital destruction. Unions were able to dampen this effect. Although not associated with higher … creation rates, unions were effective in reducing job and capital destruction. Industry concentration also was found to …
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Despite the widespread popularity of the Solow growth model, much of the recent empirical work based on the classic framework misrepresents a crucial feature of the model. Namely, the growth rate of technological progress, assumed to be exogenous in the Solow model, is often identified as being...
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An important theme in modern research on productivity has been that technological progress may be embodied in capital … in the sense that traditional measures of TFP growth reflect unmeasured improvements in the quality of capital inputs as … is that there should be a negative relationship between measured TFP and the age of the measured capital stock. This …
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