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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to...
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enhancing cost competitiveness. Furthermore, we compare measures of the wage effect under two decompositions, using data from 18 …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159334
insight offered in the present paper is that meaningful decompositions of productivity indices can only be obtained for … indices which are transitive in the main variables. Using a unified approach, we obtain decompositions for Malmquist … decompositions are applied to the same dataset of a real-life panel of decision-making units so that the extent of the differences …
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This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture …
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observe a shift in livelihood from agriculture to mining related work. This social change is an indicator of rural development …
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This paper analyses the impact of intangible capital on firm-level productivity for Germany using panel data from the Community Innovation Survey for the time period 2006 to 2018. Our paper presents three novel results. First, we find a highly significant positive relationship between intangible...
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Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper is the first to provide evidence that investment in intangible capital, despite having a positive...
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Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...
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Using firm-level data for Belgium, we study the validity of Hicks neutrality in several sectors that cover the spectrum of knowledge intensity. We find that Hicks neutrality is clearly not supported by the data in different sectors. The results are not sensitive to altering the specification of...
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