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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities

Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

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Economic efficiency of the Mexican metropolitan regions between 1998 and 2008 : European Regional Science Association, 21-25th August 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Nieto Trejo, Alejandra - 2012

to expand economically and improve the quality of life for the population. Yet, productivity, profits and efficiency are … specificities and differences among metropolis is called for. However there has been a relatively scarce recording of productivity …

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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data

Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript

This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...

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Determinants of judicial efficiency change : evidence from Brazil

Fauvrelle, Thiago A.; Almeida, Aléssio Tony Cavalcanti de - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 14 (2018) 1, pp. 1-36

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Measuring human capital in educaction

Walukiewicz, Stanislaw; Wiktorzak, Aneta Anna - 2011

We consider education as a number of multistage creative processes and analyse one of them - teaching knowledge (process P1) - in detail. In part 1 we describe the idea of Virtual Production Line (VPL), introduced by Walukiewicz in 2006 as an extension of Classical Production Line (CPL), an...

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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.

Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary

The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European …

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Productivity and performance of Finnish and Norwegian dairy farms : does EU membership matter?

Sipiläinen, Timo; Lien, Gudbrand; Kumbhakar, Subal; … - 2011 - Preliminary version

paper, we explore development and differences in productivity and efficiency trends in the two countries before and after … introduction of milk quotas, and more generally, changes in agricultural policy and macro-economic factors. We model productivity …

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Deciphering the effects of agglomeration economies on firms' productive efficiency

Skuras, Dimitrios; Tsekouras, Kostas; Dimara, Efthalia - 2011

The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the machineries and textiles industries in Greece for the periods 1989-91 and 1999-01. The analysis employs a stochastic production frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to...

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The impact of knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity : new empirical evidence from selected European countries

Puškárová, Paula; Piribauer, Philipp - 2014

productivity differences among regions within a regression framework in general and the impact of their spillovers on regional … total factor productivity in particular. The focus is laid on interregional spillovers between the Western and Eastern EU … conventional reservoirs of knowledge - patent stocks - falls. Vienna appears to be the largest contributor to the productivity …

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The complementary effects of proximity dimensions on knowledge spillovers

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Usai, Stefano - 2012 - First edition: November 2011, second edition: January 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of various proximity dimensions on the innovative capacity of 276 regions in Europe within a knowledge production function model, where R&D and human capital are included as the main internal inputs. We combine the standard geographical...

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