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Felicidad y salud : una aproximación to well-being in the Rio de la Plata

Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 65-78

We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the main relationship is between happiness and health...

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The analysis of training needs in public institutions operating in health care sector in the Podkarpacie Province

Skica, Tomasz; Rodzinka, Jacek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 1, pp. 85-101

The article is an attempt at diagnosing training needs of the employees of units operating in health care sector in the Podkarpacie Province. In times of permanent changes affecting each sphere of economy, providers of health care services cannot afford to remain outside this trend. Improving...

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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation

Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54

During the last decades, traditional manufacturing firms in Western economies have undergone a rapid transformation. Two effects of the globalised economy prompting firms to outsource labour intensive production to low wage areas are the increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a...

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Market reforms and efficiency gains in Chile

Bergoeing, Raphael; Hernando, Andrés; Repetto, Andrea - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 2, pp. 217-242

Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant-level data on Chilean firms for years 1980 to 2001, we estimate the role of reforms on efficiency. We analyze aggregate productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the...

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Befristete Beschäftigung hat keinen Einfluss auf die betriebliche Arbeitsproduktivität

Nielen, Sebastian; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 21, pp. 14-17

Die Befristung von Arbeitsverträgen hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. In der Folge wird auch intensiv über die positiven wie negativen Effekte dieser Beschäftigungsform diskutiert. Die Debatte beschränkt sich jedoch im Wesentlichen auf Arbeitsmarktaspekte und die...

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Forschende Unternehmen schneiden besser ab

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 35, pp. 3-14

Die industrielle Forschung hat in den vergangenen zehn Jahren expandiert. Sowohl die Zahl der forschenden Unternehmen als auch die Beschäftigung in Forschung und Entwicklung und die finanziellen Aufwendungen in diesem Bereich haben deutlich zugenommen. Zuwächse gab es vor allem bei Unternehmen...

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Industrielle Entwicklung : Deutschland und Frankreich driften auseinander

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 48, pp. 3-14

particularly evident in a comparison between Germany and France. The manufacturing industry in Germany was able to maintain its …

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Technology, human capital and growth : further evidence from threshold cointegration

Apergis, Nicholas - In: The open economics journal 2 (2009), pp. 80-86

This paper assesses whether the linkages between R&D, human capital and productivity growth in a panel of EU manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2002 are affected by a critical level of human capital. To employ our data in an efficient manner, the study makes use of a dynamic...

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Measuring and decomposing sources of productivity performance in India’s paper and pulp industry under liberalized regime : a nonparametric approach

Ray, Sarbapriya - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 147-171

change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact … of liberalization on productivity growth of India's paper industry. Specifically, this study quantifies the level of … Index method to different sub-sectors of India's Paper and pulp industry at aggregate level in order to have trend in …

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Foreign direct investment and export decision relationship in the large Turkish firms

Atici, Gonca; Gursoy, Guner - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 4, pp. 167-184

top 500 Turkish manufacturing firms is gathered from the Istanbul Chamber of Industry for the period of 1993-2009. We have …

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