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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2014

labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …

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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

use the model to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in …

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THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE COMPANY AND ITS INDICATORS

DELIU, Angela; FRASINEANU, Pantelemon - In: ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY: Theoretical and Scientifical Journal (2013) 4, pp. 120-125

The article reveals the essence and the economic content of the economic efficiency at the enterprise level. Also, its forms are given, and respectively, indicators which can be used to measure the economic efficiency within the company. A production situation was proposed, through which have...

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …

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factor misallocation and development

Restuccia, Diego - Palgrave Macmillan

productivity (TFP). This article summarises the evidence on the importance of resource allocation across productive units in …

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Relative Prices and Sectoral Productivity

Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2015

-country productivity differences are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories. We … with an input-output structure, we find that cross-country productivity differences are much larger in non … productivity difference is reduced by more than half when abstracting from intermediate inputs. Development requires an emphasis on …

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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Restuccia, Diego - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014

labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …

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Trade liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit; Schott, Peter K.; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

-liberalization quota allocation is not based on firm productivity. Removing this misallocation accounts for a substantial share of the … overall productivity gains associated with the quota removal. …

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Regulation of entry and the variety of manufactured exports from developing countries

Munemo, Jonathan - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 1, pp. 207-222

manufactured goods positively affects productivity, the results imply that reducing regulatory barriers to entry can raise … productivity, and this is especially important in low income countries where exports are heavily concentrated in primary products …

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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

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