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The impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistribution and productivity
Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi; Günther, Isabel - 2020
This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using a large online experiment with US citizens on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Participants are randomly allocated to different payment schemes for a real-effort task. Four payment...
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Automation with heterogeneous agents : the effect on consumption inequality
Santini, Tommaso - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2022 - This version: November 3, 2022
In this paper, I study technological change as a candidate for the observed increase in consumption inequality in the … side. I consider two channels through which technology affects inequality: the skill that an agent can supply in the labor … consumption inequality between 1981 and 2008 in the US (ii) educational choice and the return to wealth are quantitatively …
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Productivity measurement in radial DEA models with a single constant input
Karagiannēs, Giannēs; Lovell, C. A. Knox - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 251 (2016) 1, pp. 323-328
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A new Malmquist-type green total factor productivity measure : an application to China
Chen, Xiang; Chen, Yong; Huang, Wenli; Zhang, Xuping - In: Energy economics 117 (2023), pp. 1-13
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A macroeconomic perspective on education and inequality
Asplund, Rita - 2004
, yet far from comprehensive, overview is that the relationship between inequality and economic growth, as well as the … challenged the traditional views that increasing inequality has a positive impact on economic growth, and that redistribution … through education subsidies has a negative effect on growth. – education ; inequality ; macroeconomic perspective …
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Economic growth and convergence during the transition to production using automation capital
Dujava, Daniel; Lábaj, Martin - 2019
This paper examines the implications of automation capital in a Solow growth model with two types of labour. We study the transition from standard production to production using automation capital which substitutes low-skilled workers. We assume that despite advances in technology, AI and...
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Industrial Production in the United States : Some Statistics
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...
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Creative Capital in Production, Inefficiency, and Inequality : A Theoretical Analysis
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2016
We analyze inefficiency and inequality associated with the use of creative capital to produce a final good. We first … of inequality and show that an increase in inequality enhances efficiency and that it is possible to achieve complete … possible rationale for the observed income inequality in cities and regions in which the activities of the creative class …
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Diligence Aversion and Productivity : Evidence on the Burden of Quality Controls
Rötheli, Tobias F. - 2023
Putting effort into quality management evidently generates improvements in quality. However, such efforts come with a psychological burden. Working under quality pressure, i.e., extending diligence is burdensome. We hypothesize that this burden is valued differently in different cultures. This...
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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention
Gaudeul, Alexia; Mathieu, Laurence; Peroni, Chiara - 2009
Properties of blogging networks are derived from a model where bloggers devote attention to others, produce content for others, and exchange attention with content within their network of relations. The predictions from the model are tested with a novel dataset from LiveJournal, a major blogging...
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