focus more on measures to foster TFP growth than on specific price or quantity instruments to enhance income growth. …

toward the domestic market and two export products. Other objective was to identify productivity growth compensated the … decrease of prices. The geometric rates of the production, area and productivity growth were estimated. The exchange rate was …

cross-country income distribution produced 61% of world equipment and countries in the bottom decile produced only 0 … intermediate goods. Countries differ in their average level of productivity in each of the tradable sectors. International trade is … that the composition of capital is a function of country-specific productivity parameters and bilateral trade costs. I …

This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United …

, off-farm income, forward contracting sales of crops and livestock, and computer use are positively related to a farmer …

of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational … wage and salary income. The emphasis is on the United States and other advanced industrial countries, with some discussion …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …

on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

-, consultation-, and co-determination rights. The effects works councils have on productivity and profits are estimated for medium …-sized manufacturing firms using information from the IAB establishment panel. The results indicate a positive effect on productivity of 6 …