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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … productivity, to a ?Marxian? zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academic sector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in all countries around...
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significant effects on value added or labor productivity. We further show that these overall results are primarily driven by firms …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762377
The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academic sector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in all countries around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822712
significant effects on value added or labor productivity. We further show that these overall results are primarily driven by firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323400
of regional integration on labor productivity and firms' probability to innovate using data from a panel of 170 economies … cooperation and integration, can positively contribute to labor productivity and innovation, in addition to known factors of …
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This paper provides an extensive review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations and their effects on labor market outcomes. It uncovers the interdependence of these two types of regulations, an area that has received limited attention in research. The paper highlights why...
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Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions -...
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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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