In an important paper. Hal! and Jones (1999) show that international differences in output per worker across 127 countries in 1988 are fundamentally determined by variations in. what they term, a country's "social infrastructure". This paper conducts a robustness check of their findings by...

En este trabajo estimamos la evolución de la productividad total en la minería española durante el período 1974-1991. Para ello proponemos la utilización de una metodología de medida genérica y flexible, que nos indica la trayectoria de la productividad a partir de los factores o fuentes...

The purpose of this paper is to present a unified and detailed survey of the major contributions to Lot Sizing and Scheduling problems in both Single- and Multi-Stage manufacturing systems.

This paper provides an explanation of technical inefficiencies of financial exchanges in Europe as well as an empirical analysis of their existence and extent. A single-stage stochastic cost frontier approach is employed, which generates exchange inefficiency scores based on a unique unbalanced...

L'objectif de la recherche est de s'interesser a l'impact de l'arrivee du Fonds sur les rapports du travail des entreprises GL&V Fabrication inc., Mitallurgie Castech inc., Cartem inc. et Groupe Robert inc. Il s'agit de voir dans quelle mesure une institution syndicale comme le Fonds constitue...

It is shown that in an economy with production indivisibilities on the capital side, production may be carried out by capitalist firms only, irrespective of the fact that workers can exchange work for capital so that labour-managed production seems feasible.

This paper provides a conceptual model that explains how organizational knowledge, capabilities, and products co-evolve over long time spans, and how this can result in competitive advantage through innovation and strategic linkage of products at a point in time and over time.

This paper is concerned with the nature of economic growth in 19 manufacturing industries between 1970-92. There is substantial heterogeneity (both across sectors and time) in rates of growth of value-added, hours worked, labour productivity and Total Factor Productivity during the sample...

Nous essayons de comprendre les evolutions observees en France en ce qui concerne la part des salariesdans la valeur ajoutee, les salaires reels, l'emploi, le rapport capital-travail, la productivite apparente des facteurs. Nous utilisons pour cela un modele theorique a generations imbriquees...

The 'big-bang' liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analysing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of...