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Catching up with the Keynesians

Ljungqvist, L.; Uhlig, H.F.H.V.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

This paper examines the role for tax policies in productivity-shock driven economies with \catching …

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Outsourcing of services and the productivity recovery in U.S. manufacturing in the 1980s

ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, E.N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

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Migration and income transfers in the presence of labor quality externalities

Huizinga, Harry P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

In this paper, a worker's productivity is assumed to depend on his own quality and on the average quality of other …

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Strategic Investment Under Uncertainty : Merging Real Options with Game Theory

Huisman, Kuno; Kort, Peter; Pawlina, G.; Thijssen, J.J.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

As becomes apparent from the standard text books in industrial organization (cf.Tirole, 1988, The Theory of Industrial Organization), the analysis of the e.ects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped.This paper shows that the new theory of strategic real options can be used to...

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Innovation, growth and welfare-improving cycles

Francois, P.; Shi, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Sources of productivity growth : Technology, terms of trade and preference shifts

ten Raa, Thijs; Mohnen, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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The Vintage Effect in TPF-Growth : An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital

ten Raa, Thijs; Gittleman, M.; Wolff, E.N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity.It has been argued that the … productivity measurement.One proposition proves that Nelson s (1964) formula is only an approximation.Our final proposition shows … that inclusion of the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging …

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Does the Unemployement Benefit Institution Affect the Productivity of Workers? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Blanco, M.; Vargas, J.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment bene t institution affects productivity. We designed … a field experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an … unconditional monetary transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the …

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Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Publish-or-Perish Culture : A Worldwide Survey

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, C.J.I.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: How does publication pressure in modern-day universities affect the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in science? By using a worldwide survey among demographers in developed and developing countries, we show that the large majority perceive the publication pressure as high, but more so...

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Aggregation of Productivity Indices : The Allocative Efficiency Correction

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

Industry productivity is obtained by aggregation of firm productivities and inclusion of the appropriate allocative …

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