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structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …
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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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income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of decent work and …
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, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …
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, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277005
The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling causality between health and economic growth is empirically...
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Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
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, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325306
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
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