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Krueger, Anne - American Enterprise Institute

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve …

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Balaceanu, Cristina Teodora - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 1 (2009) 2, pp. 122-129

The smaller or the bigger role which the state has in the economy arises or, on the contrary, reduces the cohesion of the socio-economic function, in the conditions in which it is able to orientate through public policies the development trends of the economy.

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Competitiveness: The Business of Growth Title: Competitividad: el motor del crecimiento

Kapsoli, Javier; Galindo, Arturo; Márquez, Gustavo; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such … strategies to increase productivity and improve access by businesses to productive resources.Abstract: Participar en la economía …

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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth

Artana, Daniel; Zavala, Emilio Osambela; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...

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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data

Rycx, Francois; Kampelmann, Stephan - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2012

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …

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The heterogeneous effects of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and profits

Rycx, Francois; Garnero, Andrea - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2013

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity:Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Rycx, Francois; Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2013

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …

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Plant Dynamics and Productivity of the Canadian Petroleum and Coal Product Manufacturing Industry

Chan, Kelvin Ka Yin; Gu, Wulong; Tang, Jianmin - In: Transnational Corporations Review 6 (2014) 2, pp. 184-208

products manufacturing industry is one of the industries with the weakest productivity performance in Canada in the post 2000 … policy implications for the productivity performance of this industry. …

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Is Public Capital Productive in China? Evidence from a Panel of Chinese Provinces

Zhang, Jie - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013) 3, pp. 362-389

In addition to the direct productivity effect, public capital also has an indirect effect on private capital stock and …, we calculate the impact of public capital on regional total factor productivity (TFP) performance by introducing a system …

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Analysis of International R&D Spillover from International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Channel: Evidence from Asian Newly Industrialized Countries

Nursamsu, Samuel; Hastiadi, Fithra Faisal - Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Indonesia - 2013

channel with productivity (TFP) based on endogenous growth theory in Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (ANIC) in period … productivity. From the comparison of the two country groups in ANIC, it is found that in ANIC Tier 2, international R&D spillover … from export is not increasing productivity, yet its spillover effect is still significant. Another finding of this research …

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