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Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of poverty and the persistence of poverty in Benin … persistently poor households in Benin, and the analysis of the factors explaining the dynamic of poverty. It updates and … complements previous studies on poverty in Benin using the most recent nationally representative longitudinal data. The findings …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the state of government accounting in Ghana and Benin using neo …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of direct government payments on agricultural production and exports in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – Alternative regression models are estimated using the time‐series data of 1960 to 2010 from ERS/USDA to address the...
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Summary We estimate the association between the unemployment status of young women and the probability that they are subject to violence, using Swedish population register data covering the period 1999-2008. These data contain the highest-level classification of diagnoses made by medical experts...
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/methodology/approach – Framed in terms of the housing market and household behaviour, the paper sets out an augmented loss function which takes a …
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to discuss the ongoing increase of female entrepreneurship within a broader context of influencing factors, especially within the division of work. Talk about the rise and future of self-employment must be linked to the discussion about changes in the...
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Purpose This study aims to examine the determinants of poverty among microcredit beneficiaries in Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a nationwide survey of microcredit beneficiaries of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. Using the national poverty...
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Purpose – Indoor robotic tasks frequently specify objects. For these applications, this paper aims to propose an object-based attention method using task-relevant feature for target selection. The task-relevant feature(s) are deduced from the learned object representation in semantic memory...
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effects of education, income and risk aversion on household mortgage decisions are investigated. In addition, consumers … greater extent and, thereby, make future expenditures more predictable for the single household by reducing liquidity risks …
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