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group of assets productivity in companies with extremely different financial and economic positions. The research was …
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of the productivity of capital and labour in both sectors. For this purpose, the authors build growth model in the … Domestic Product and gross value added per employee. Research has shown that the productivity in the two sectors is different …. The private sector has a higher productivity of both labour and capital in comparison to the public sector. The authors …
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The Norwegian productivity puzzle is rooted in three seemingly contradictory “facts”: First, Norway is one of the most … productive OECD countries. Second, Norway has experienced high growth in productivity. Third, Norway has a relatively low level … demonstrate that labour productivity in Norway is not particularly high when using production purchasing power parities instead of …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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The ‘productivity puzzle’ – the substantial drop in productivity in the UK since the onset of the financial … crisis in 2008 – has exercised economists and policymakers alike. The loss in productivity levels, mainly output per hour …, continues. The Bank of England calculates this gap could stay as high as 16 per cent or even widen if the rate of productivity …
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This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I estimate a dynamic stochastic model of individuals' annual joint decisions of occupation, hours worked, and schooling. The model allows body weight to affect non-monetary costs,...
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productivity. A criticism to the recipes of the ECB The ECB suggests that hourly nominal wages should increase in line with real … hourly labour productivity, and not exceed it. The "vicious" countries which do not follow this rule loose progressively …, without any gains in productivity and competitiveness. In fact, data show that more market flexibility is associated to weak …
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supply of skill). Third, OC leads to greater productivity increases in establishments with larger initial skill endowments …
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assistance increases productivity of Estonian SMEs, thus contributing the economic development. …
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Industrial production per head has usually increased in EU countries and regions for the period 2005-2007, but for the period 2007-2013 it has diminished in many countries and regions, with negative consequences for employment, wages and economic development. We analyze the important positive...
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