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Sleeping
Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008
Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306470
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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States
Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005
This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649617
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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States
Havlik, Peter - 2005
This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100049
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Productivity and employment in APAC economies: A comparison with the EU using firm-level information
Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021
This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610159
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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information
Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021
This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545925
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Productivity, Capital-Intensity and Labour Quality at Sector Level in New Zealand and the UK
Mason, Geoff; Osborne, Matthew - 2007
Understanding productivity performance is important to informing policy advice on how to improve productivity and therefore New Zealand's overall economic performance. Given data limitations inherent in international productivity comparisons, this paper is not intended to inform policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115600
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Productivity, Capital-Intensity and Labour Quality at Sector Level in New Zealand and the UK
Mason, Geoff; Osborne, Matthew - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2007
Understanding productivity performance is important to informing policy advice on how to improve productivity and therefore New Zealand's overall economic performance. Given data limitations inherent in international productivity comparisons, this paper is not intended to inform policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464987
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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014
earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …
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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476345
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Employment protection, workforce mix and firm performance
Ardito, Chiara; Berton, Fabio; Pacelli, Lia; Passerini, … - 2021
We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance, exploiting the Italian 2015 Jobs Act. Results indicate that firms (1) stabilize workforce mainly through contract transformations of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent...
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