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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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Using data on the production and usage of cotton, the paper develops estimates for the production and consumption of cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in...
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We investigate whether an aging population may challenge the supremacy of large working-cities. To this end, we develop an economic geography model with two types of individuals (workers and retirees) and two sectors (local services and manufacturing). Workers produce and consume; the elderly...
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attempts to examine this relationship, while recent trade theory suggests that the relationship between trade and productivity …The comovement between exports and productivity observed in many countries suggests a direct link between these two … suggest that exports, productivity and the terms of trade move together in the long run in all countries except the United …
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would reflect higher productivity of more senior workers. If this were true, the observation of an effect of seniority on … wages would depend on the presence of controls for individual productivity. In this paper we replicate, using personnel data …' evaluations were used as productivity indicators. Since the validity of supervisors' evaluations as measures of productivity has …
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aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …
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, explains the initial rise in unemployment. The reduction in union power also helps to explain the acceleration in productivity … low wages and productivity. A fall in union power results in a reduction in these inefficiencies and leads not only to a … rise in productivity but also in wages. …
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We study the implications of electoral corruption for resource allocation, factor market equilibrium and inequality. We focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is subject to moral hazard then the resulting rents...
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Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more …
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What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …
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