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 … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human …

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 …

This paper examines potential of contract farming as a rural development tool by revealing its effect on productivity …