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analyzes the contribution of human capital to productivity growth in Spain during the period 2000-2013 taking into account the … productivity. …
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labor productivity, employment and prices in the agricultural and the manufacturing sectors. The empirical results indicate … productivity in the short run. The empirical results also indicate that, persistent increases in wages may be price inflationary …
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. In terms of GDP per inhabitant and productivity, eastern Germany has attained nearly three-quarters of western German … productivity is the lack of highly skilled jobs. In addition, the structure of the eastern German economy is comparatively … made available in eastern Germany. However, higher wages must accompany greater productivity and, in turn, this requires …
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The concept of efficiency in groups postulates that a coalition of firms has to record a smaller distance toward the aggregate technology frontier compared with the sum of individual distances. Efficiency analysis (either allocative or technical) is defined with respect to cooperative firm game...
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The rapid growth of the US financial sector has driven policy debate on whether it is socially desirable. I propose a heterogeneous agent model with asymmetric information and matching frictions that produces a tradeoff between finance and entrepreneurship. By becoming bankers, talented...
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use a dynamic model to measure the impact of large entrants on productivity, allowing for a controlled productivity …, we find that incumbents' productivity increase after large entry and that the magnitude of the increase declines with the … productivity of incumbents. Our findings highlight that large entrants play a crucial role in driving productivity growth. …
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productivity-enhancing channel of transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap, as well as on the endogeneity of …
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We investigate the effects on individuals’ productivity (captured through their wage income) of two social networks in … community most affects an individual’s productivity. We distinguish between individuals engaged in “creative” and “non creative … neighborhoods do matter for individuals’ productivity, although the effect is stronger for noncreatives. For both creatives and …
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A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a …
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We provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage proles for different health statuses. Using semi-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship b etween individual health and pro ductivity and its changes in the life cycle,...
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