This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of Khartoum State - the Sudan capital.The study focuses on identifying how spaces and times are interrelated and engendered. Theforces that impact the creation of boundaries or those...

This paper extends the literature on the information content of financial variables with respect to future economic growth. It shows that variables originating from both the equity market and the bond market in Switzerland are useful indicators for forecasting the Swiss business cycle. In...

Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents` declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital trust and...

In this paper, we discuss the derivation and application of a bivariate ordered probit modelwith mixed effects. Our approach allows one to estimate the distribution of the effect (gamma) of anendogenous ordered variable on an ordered explanatory variable. By allowing gamma to vary over...

leaders and employees in an large international oil company. The purpose is to provide robust empiricalinsights on the individual and organisational determinants of perceived performance appraisalDesign/methodology/approach – Based on a powerful set of survey data (n 12,000), we specify...

Work-related health problems represent a latent threat to job motivation and organisational performance,with high potential costs both for private and public enterprises. Based on powerful survey data from aninternational oil company in Norway, we explore how work-related health problems are...

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...