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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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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...
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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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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 …
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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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Let’s Take Bargaining Models Seriously:The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer unionpower from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of unionstrength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union powerwas relatively...
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Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to theFalling Labour Share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor inthe evolution of inequality … time-varying labour share on the inequality and employment time paths documented inour sample, the evolution of the wage-productivity …
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Kompetitive und kooperative Wissensteilung
Helmstädter, Ernst - Institut Arbeit und Technik <Gelsenkirchen> - 1999
Der Beitrag geht zunächst auf den Zusammenhang von Wissensteilung und Arbeitsteilung ein und stellt hiernach die Besonderheiten der Wissensteilung vor. Diese Eigenarten machen im ökonomischen Sinne einen besonderen Umgang notwendig. Es bietet sich dabei an, Probleme der Wissensteilung mit dem...
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