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Kaldor's Laws and Spatial Dependence: Evidence for the European Regions

Pons-Novell, Jordi; Viladecans-Marsal, Elisabet - In: Regional Studies 33 (1999) 5, pp. 443-451

between manufacturing productivity growth and manufacturing output growth. Kaldor's third law holds that overall productivity …

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A new regional policy for Britain

Gill, Stephen FOTHER - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 5, pp. 659-667

Fothergill S. (2005) A new regional policy for Britain, Regional Studies 39 , 659-667. Britain's Labour Government is setting new directions for UK regional policy and proposing radical changes in European Union regional policy as well. This paper provides a critical review of the three UK...

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Technology Transfer Within Multinational Firms and Its Impact on the Productivity of Scottish Subsidiaries

Siler, Pamela; Wang, Chengqi; Liu, Xiaming - In: Regional Studies 37 (2003) 1, pp. 15-25

SILER P., WANG C. and LIU X. (2003) Technology transfer within multinational firms and its impact on the productivity … generated in US parent firms is transferred to their Scottish affiliates in the form of productivity gains. Using a firm …-level panel data set, the empirical results show that the labour productivity growth of Scottish subsidiaries is positively linked …

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Gardiner, Ben; Martin, Ron; Tyler, Peter - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 9, pp. 1045-1067

Gardiner B., Martin R. and Tyler P. (2004) Competitiveness, productivity and economic growth across the European … key issues that arise in operationalizing the concept and it focuses on the central relevance of productivity in the … debate about regional competitiveness. It then examines the pattern and dynamics of regional productivity across the European …

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Net Energy Expenditure and Energy Demand in the UK

Pearce, David; Westoby, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

productivity. It does not appear to have any special advantage over other measures for forecasting applications. …

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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages

den Berg, Gerard J van; van Vuuren, Aico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

productivity. The matched data provide the skill composition in different markets. Together this allows us to investigate how the … mean difference between labour productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants …

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Measurement Issues, the Productivity Slowdown and the Explosion of Computer Power

Baily, Martin; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...

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Open trade and skilled and unskilled labor productivity in developing countries: A panel data analysis

Abizadeh, Sohrab; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 16 (2007) 3, pp. 383-399

This paper examines the effect of trade openness on the productivity of skilled and unskilled labor in a group of 36 … significant impact on labor productivity for both skilled and unskilled labor in the sample countries. We also observe that the … adjusting for the purchasing power parity, the impact of trade openness on labor productivity, although positive and significant …

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A Critique of the Global Wage System

Köhler, Gernot - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2006) 2, pp. 163-173

It is widely believed that international wage differences are a result of international productivity differences. That … belief has been criticized by various economists for the differential in wages being much higher than in productivity …. Another criticism has been that productivity increases in developing countries have tended to lead to lower world prices for …

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