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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
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selves have different tastes for time alone, time with family, and time with friends. Weather conditions can change the … empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …
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In this paper, we combine administrative data for continental Spain from 2010 to 2018 with meteorological data to identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (30°C) decrease total fertility rate (TFR) in Spain, and that the estimated...
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reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …
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We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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the Financial Statement data in the Finnish manufacturing sector, we examine the sources of carbon-productivity growth and … of carbon productivity growth whereas the contribution of entering and exiting firms was negative. In addition, the … allocation of emissions across firms appeared to be inefficient, with a negative impact on carbon productivity growth over the …
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …
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This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
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We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
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