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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …
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We develop a framework for analyzing “medium-run” departures from balanced growth, and apply it to the economies of continental Europe. A time-varying factor-augmenting production function (mimicking “directed” technical change) with a below-unitary substitution elasticity coupled with...
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,tend to rise faster than the prices of material goods. Central to his model is the disparityin labour productivity growth … disease of services retains its explanatory power and relevance today. It refutescriticisms that productivity growth in …
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Labour productivity is a measure of an economy's performance, and its development is a major determinant of material … prosperity. In view of this, the slowing trend growth of labour productivity in many countries is a challenge that should not be … development of overall labour productivity in the five largest European economies and analyses the contribution of important …
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the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …
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variation in measured health status are included in wage functions to assess empirically whether the productivity of both … components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Brazil suggests that the health human capital effect on …
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
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This paper presents a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developing countries. We discuss models which seek to explain the empirical finding that openness has increased wage inequality in several developing countries.
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Profits entwickelt habe und in dem es um Einkommensverteilung und Wachstum gehe. Philipp Harms, Universität Main …
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
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