The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are … help in promoting its real production sectors. Economic variables and factors of production, total production, total labor …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …

-adjusted index of labor services. We find that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth decreases significantly when using the latter …In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over … method. This means that when using the alternative method one explains more of the growth in labor productivity than what a …

hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …

This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the … long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity … sector, the distribution of gains from the impressive labour productivity growth appears to be markedly uneven. Finally …

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and …