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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

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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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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Economic growth with political lobbying and wage bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2009

follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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

Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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FDI and wages: Evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012

strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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