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Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...

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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Bailey, Roy E; Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants …

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TFP Growth in British and German Manufacturing, 1950-96

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Paper considers the accuracy of traditional TFP growth estimates using an econometric methodology which takes account of scale economies, fixed factors of production and adjustment costs to reveal underlying ‘pure technological change’. The results suggest that these biases vary...

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Do Exporters Gain From VERs?

de Melo, Jaime; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Previous literature has concentrated on the rent transfer accruing to exporting countries when a VER is binding. This paper studies the efficiency and distributional effects arising when VERs force factors out of industries in which they are most productive. A theoretical model of the industry...

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Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence

Symeonidis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

&D-intensive manufacturing industries, while it caused a significant rise in concentration in these industries. In the short run profitability …

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Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show

Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity … manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through … compositional effects of structural change. The persistent large labour productivity gap between the US and Europe cannot be …

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Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing Before Reunification

Van Ark, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

manufacturing industries. The comparisons are based on the industry of origin approach which makes use of information on value added … are based on values at producer prices for individually matched products. This study shows that for the manufacturing … German time series on real output in manufacturing to a factor cost standard, the comparative productivity level of East …

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Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States

Broadberry, Stephen N; Wagner, Karin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

high levels of labour productivity and concentration on the development of managerial capabilities, but neglect of the … skills of the shop-floor labour force, while in Britain and Germany concentration on craft production led to greater emphasis … or `flexible production' methods, intensive in the use of skilled shop-floor labour within a small batch industrial …

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Wage Gaps and Job Sorting in African Manufacturing

Benhassine, Najy; Fafchamps, Marcel; Söderbom, Måns - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using matched employer-employee data from eleven African countries, we investigate if there is job sorting in African labor markets. We find that much of the wage gap correlated with education is driven by selection across occupations and firms. This is consistent with educated workers being...

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