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The Stock of Human Capital in the Italian Regions

Tornatore, Maurizio - 2011

The purpose of this note is to document how we constructed annual series for average educational attainment in the 20 Italian administrative regions throughout the 1970-1998 period. These annual data are disaggregated by gender and by eight sectors (Agriculture, Energy, Manufacturing,...

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Public Capital, Employment and Total Factor Productivity : Evidence from Italian Transport Sector

Magazzino, Cosimo - 2013

and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) applied to transport sector for Italy, using annual data for the period 1970 …. Stationarity tests clearly show that the series are I(1) processes. Our estimation results indicate that one cointegrating … and labour force, as well as between public capital and TFP ; while productivity Granger-causes labour force but not the …

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Sources of Growth Revisited : The Importance of the Nature of Technological Progress

Acikgoz, Senay - 2016

Traditional sources of growth studies generally assume that the nature of technological progress is Hicks-neutral. However, the nature of technological progress compatible with steady state conditions is Harrod-neutral rather than Hicks-neutral. This study thus investigates sources of growth for...

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Why does the Mexican peso depreciate against the dollar? : the role of productivity differentials

López Marmolejo, Arnoldo; Ventosa-Santaulària, Daniel - 2018

former. The main factor in this relentless long-term depreciation is the loss of productivity in Mexico relative to the US …

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Total Factor Productivity and Outward Orientation in Taiwan : What is the Nature of the Relationship?

Dessus, Sebastien - 1999

Recent applied literature finds a correlation between total factor productivity (TFP) growth and increased outward …

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Total Factor Productivity and Outward Orientation in Taiwan : What is the Nature of the Relationship?

Dessus, Sebastien - 1999

Recent applied literature finds a correlation between total factor productivity (TFP) growth and increased outward …

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Structural Change, Capital's Contribution, and Economic Efficiency : Sources of China's Economic Growth between 1952-1998

Wang, Zijian; Wei, Jiegen - 2004

This paper examines the effects of structural change, long-term TFP trend and marginal return to capital on China's economic growth, comparing such effects with those in the other East Asian economies. Our empirical results show that China's TFP converges to a higher level, and the marginal...

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Climatic Conditions and Productivity : An Impact Evaluation in Pre-Industrial England

Auray, Stéphane - 2015

to changes in climatic conditions. We propose an economic model to extract a measure of total productivity from English … data (real wages and land rents) in the pre-industrial period. This measure of total productivity is then related to … temperatures and precipitations. We find that lower (respectively higher) precipitations (resp. temperatures) enhance productivity …

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Productivity effects of knowledge transfers through labour mobility

Pöschl, Johannes; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2013

The paper addresses the link between productivity and labour mobility. The hypothesis tested is that technology is … diffused within the new environment creating spillovers and leading to productivity improvements. The empirical analysis is … considerable beneficial effects on industry productivity. Possible endogeneity problems related to labour mobility are tackled by …

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The race of man and machine: implications of technology when abilities and demand constraints matter

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2021

impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …

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