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Agricultural Productivity Convergence: Myth or Reality?

Poudel, Biswo N.; Paudel, Krishna P.; Zilberman, David - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 43 (2011) 01

We tested agricultural productivity convergence in the United States using the state level total factor productivity data and utilizing new estimation and cluster identification methods to identify convergence in the data. The empirical investigation did not indicate any evidence of agricultural...

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Improving digital competence in Romania: Learning from the best

Buica, Mihaela; Dragan, Gabriela - In: CES Working Papers 9 (2017) 3, pp. 444-468

The main objective of this paper is to analyse and understand the factors which constantly position Romania on the last … awareness concerning the necessity of increasing digital competences in Romania. The paper provides a comparison among Romania … can be a solution for Romania in increasing its performance and maintaining a valuable role in the European industry …

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies

Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Is human capital a major determinant for foreign investors? Comparative study between India and Romania

Diaconu, Laura; Maxim, Andrei - In: CES Working Papers 11 (2019) 2, pp. 157-169

capital represents a major determinant in attracting the foreign investors in two emerging economies - Romania and India. In … drivers of foreign investments in both India and in Romania, even if the leading determinant still remains the low cost of …

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