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Societies provide institutions that are costly to use, but able to enforce long-run relationships. We study the optimal decision problem of using self-governance for risk sharing or governance through enforcement provided by these institutions. Third-party enforcement is modelled as a costly...
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We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
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Inspired by a European spirit, the EU's national economic and social councils and the EESC worked together tirelessly to create a European network of economic and social councils. Thanks to the commitment of the presidents and members of all the councils, the network has helped forge systematic...
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the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …
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firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also, decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms are carried out. The … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …
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Slovakia is engaged in an ambitious reform process which has the potential to quicken productivity growth, increase the …
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research and development on the determinants of productivity gaps between the current EU-15 and accession states in central and … specialisation patterns for the explanation of observed productivity gaps and for the projection of future potentials of productivity … growth in central and eastern Europe. For the aggregated level, analysis determines the share of national productivity gaps …
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The.31st CEIES seminar "Are we measuring productivity correctly" was held on 12 and 13 October in Rome, Italy. It … of the art in measurement of productivity worldwide, - to identify major challenges for statistics with a special focus …
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This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts …
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