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How Important are Dual Economy Effects for Aggregate Productivity?
Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005
This paper brings together development accounting techniques and the dual economy model to address the role that factor markets have in creating variation in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). Development accounting research has shown that much of the variation in income across countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066011
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Factor Reallocation and Growth in Developing Countries
Poirson, Hélène - 2000
the impact and determinants of sectoral changes and of the degree of dualism (or allocation inefficiency) in a dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399960
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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
queuing theory to first demonstrate that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028905
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Cooperative production under diminishing marginal returns : interpreting fixed-path methods
Leroux, Justin (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395305
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Allocative efficiency, plant dynamics and regional productivity : evidence from Germany
Bruhn, Simon; Grebel, Thomas - 2023
This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays …-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503649
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Weather shocks and the optimal policy mix in a climate-vulnerable economy
Annicchiarico, Barbara; Crofils, Cédric - 2025
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015194293
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Inequality, openness, and growth through creative destruction
Schetter, Ulrich; Schneider, Maik T.; Jäggi, Adrian - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015134131
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475841
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Credit constraints and economic growth in a dual economy
Skott, Peter; Gómez-Ramírez, Leopoldo - 2017
Pervasive credit constraints have been seen as major sources of slow growth in developing economies. This paper clarifies a mechanism through which an inefficient financial system can reduce productivity growth. Using a two-sector model, second, we examine the implications for employment and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721982
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New and old dual economy
Popović, Milenko; Radević, Ivan - In: Management : journal of contemporary management issues 27 (2022) 1, pp. 63-81
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