(BEER) and a Permanent Equilibrium Exchange Rate (PEER). Four different model specifications are retained, due to the … productivity, and (in some specifications) the relative fiscal stance and the real price of oil, have a significant influence on …

Export Processing Zones are geographical enclaves that have legally been excepted from the country´s normal customs …

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity … productivity by as much as 18%. …

A model is used to study the impact of ownership on productivity and wages. Data on private and public manufacturing in … Turkey during the 1950-1998 period indicate that productivity is higher in the private sector.There is a close relationship … between wages and productivity in the private sector; no such relationship exists in the public sector. …

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

on work arrangements in key industries. It is complemented by the Productivity Commission's report, International …

services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread … employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …