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NATURE AND DETERMINANTS OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH OFFOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES IN CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEANCOUNTRIES
Majcen, Boris; Radošević, Slavo; Rojec, Matija - Centre for Comparative Economics <London> - 2006
The paper examines the determinants of productivity growth in foreign manufacturingsubsidiaries in five Central and …. Building on the socalled ‘developmental subsidiaries’ perspective we show that productivity growth isdetermined jointly by …
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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)
United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003
Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...
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Incentive Contracts and Total Factor Productivity
Bental, Benjamin; Demougin, Dominique - 2004
This paper deals with endogenous determination of effort as a source of productivity growth. …
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ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT
Cameron, Gavin; Fawcett, Nicholas - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005
In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...
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COMPARING SECTORAL PRODUCTIVITY ACROSS COUNTRIES
Glyn, Andrew - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004
trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870209
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ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH BUBBLES
Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010
We develop a stylized model of economic growth with bubbles. In this model, financial frictions leadto equilibrium dispersion in the rates of return to investment. During bubbly episodes, unproductiveinvestors demand bubbles while productive investors supply them. Because of this, bubbly...
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Total Factor Productivity Growth On Britain’s Railways, 1852-1912: A Reappraisal Of The Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas F. R.; Mills, Terence C.; Mulatu, Abay - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an … it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of company-level productivity rejects the claims that there was a regulation …-induced revival of productivity performance in the railway sector after 1900 but, on the other hand, it supports the claim that there …
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The Impact of Road Infrastructure on Productivity and Growth : Some Preliminary Results for the German Manufacturing Sector
Stephan, Andreas - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung - 1997
Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11Bundesländer from 1970 to 1993, we examine the impact of road infrastructure onprivate production applying three different approaches; i.e., a Cobb-Douglas production function, a translog production function and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005854866
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Productive, Unproductive and Destructive Entrepreneurship:A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration
Sauka, Arnis - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008
Drawing on Baumol’s concepts of productive, unproductive and destructiveentrepreneurship and relevant amendments, this thesis aims to contribute to theentrepreneurship literature by developing a conceptual framework which allowsoperationalising the concepts for empirical assessment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418714
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Controlling von Produktivität, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Ergebnis
Dellmann, Klaus; Pedell, Karl Ludwig - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 1994
Das Thema des Arbeitskreises "Produktivitäts- und Wirtschaftlichkeitsrechnungen" war dieBestandsaufnahme, Systematisierung und Entwicklung von betriebswirtschafüichen Instrumentenzur Messung, Beurteilung und Steuerung von Produktivität und Wirtschaftlichkeit beider Verfolgung...
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