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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
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We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …
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between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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products manufacturing industry is one of the industries with the weakest productivity performance in Canada in the post 2000 … policy implications for the productivity performance of this industry. …
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In addition to the direct productivity effect, public capital also has an indirect effect on private capital stock and …, we calculate the impact of public capital on regional total factor productivity (TFP) performance by introducing a system …
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channel with productivity (TFP) based on endogenous growth theory in Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (ANIC) in period … productivity. From the comparison of the two country groups in ANIC, it is found that in ANIC Tier 2, international R&D spillover … from export is not increasing productivity, yet its spillover effect is still significant. Another finding of this research …
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’s very slow productivity growth was the single most important factor that hurt competitiveness. We argue that a coherent and …
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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productivity. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that subjective well-being contributes to productivity using a two step approach …: first, we establish whether subjectivewell-being can be a candidate variable to study Total Factor Productivity; second, we … assess how much subjective well-being contributes to productivity at aggregate level through efficiency gains. We adopt Data …
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