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prudent utilization of geothermal, while conserving the resource's long-term productivity. The program, which is based upon …
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correlation in labor productivity growth and in AEEI. The observed variability then provides a basis for constructing probability …
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economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … dissertation, I model the impact on labor productivity of a change in disease susceptibility that results from intellectual …
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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 … specific productivity parameters and trade costs, I determine the quantitative relationship between international trade and …
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correlated with higher productivity. Specifically, I find that higher levels of the skills math and critical thinking partially … explain higher levels of regional productivity. Science, though not statistically significant, has a negative correlation …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often...
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This article employs the superlative Fisher and Trnqvist indexes for exact decomposition of growth in nominal revenues and costs. The findings confirm the well-known result that these indexes very closely approximate each other, implying that the mathematically simpler and computationally easier...
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This paper briefly presents the results of a total factor productivity (TFP) study of South African commercial …
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This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP …
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