Similar Search Results

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Karajvanov, … - University of California <Berkeley, Calif.> / Riverside …; … - 2002

In this paper we analyze the effect of inequality in the distribution of endowments of privateinputs (like land, capital) on production efficiency through its effect on the voluntary provisionof collective inputs (like irrigation, public research) that are complementary in production withthose...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008911466

Allocation and Productivity of Time in new Ventures of Female and Male Entrepreneurships

Verheul, Ingrid; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a model that … distinguishes between effects of preferences and productivity on the number of working hours... …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864972

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005843291

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. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841063

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

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870949

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870190

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

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870349

Wissensgemeinschaften

Borowsky, Rainer - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005855729

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last