In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … in the estimation of an employment regression, focusing on the effect of exchange rate movements. Our estimates indicate …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of technology. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally … estimate it using panel data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal … likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …, higher migrating costs may result in a change in the number and in the composition of immigrants to the United States. In the …