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Haliassos, Michael - Research Center SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for … - 2013

There is a prevalent view outside Greece that promotion of competitiveness is tantamount with price reductions for Greek goods and services. Massive horizontal salary cuts appear, at first, to promote competitiveness by reducing unit labor costs and to reduce fiscal deficits by reducing the wage...

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Human Capital and Export Decisions: The Case of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kosovo

Gashi, Petrit - In: Croatian Economic Survey 16 (2014) 2, pp. 91-120

Following the propositions of firm internationalization theories including the Melit’z dynamic model of export participation, this paper investigates the effects of human capital on the export decisions of Kosovo’s firms. Using a unique dataset of around 500 Small and Medium Enterprises,...

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What Explains the Canada-U.S. Software Investment Intensity Gap?

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …

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A Detailed Analysis of Productivity Trends in the Canadian Forest Products Sector

Avillez, Ricardo de - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …

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Convergence Across Provincial Economies in Canada: Trends, Drivers, and Implications

Capeluck, Evan - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …

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The Impact of the Oil Boom on Canada's Labour Productivity Performance

Sharpe, Andrew; Waslander, Bert - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

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Do Salaries Improve Worker Performance?

Bryson, A; Buraimo, B; Simmons, R - Department of Economics, Management School - 2010

We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. Worker performance improves among those who move onto salaried contracts...

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Costs and Efficiency of Higher Education Institutions in England: A DEA Analysis

Thanassoulis, E; Kortelainen, M; Johnes, G; Johnes, J - Department of Economics, Management School - 2009

approach to assess productivity change in UK HEIs. The results reveal that for a majority of HEIs productivity has actually …

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The analysis of ranges of variability of selected ratios from a group of assets productivity ratios three years before the declaration of bankruptcy by companies in Poland

Antonowicz, Pawel - In: Business and Economic Horizons (BEH) 10 (2014) 3, pp. 202-213

group of assets productivity in companies with extremely different financial and economic positions. The research was …

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The productivity of public and private sector in Poland

Pater, Robert; Skica, Tomasz - In: Business and Economic Horizons (BEH) 10 (2014) 2, pp. 120-137

of the productivity of capital and labour in both sectors. For this purpose, the authors build growth model in the … Domestic Product and gross value added per employee. Research has shown that the productivity in the two sectors is different …. The private sector has a higher productivity of both labour and capital in comparison to the public sector. The authors …

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