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This paper examines cross-country patterns of economic growth by estimating a stochastic frontier production function for 80 developed and developing countries and decomposing output change into factor accumulation, total factor productivity growth, and production efficiency improvement. In...
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Doctor of Philosophy
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Este documento analiza el papel de las diferencias en crecimiento de la PTF entre el sector de la construcción y la economía en su conjunto para explicar la evolución de los precios reales de la vivienda. Para ello, primero se comparan las sendas de precios de construcción y vivienda en...
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An important theme in modern research on productivity has been that technological progress may be embodied in capital in the sense that traditional measures of TFP growth reflect unmeasured improvements in the quality of capital inputs as well as pure disembodied technological progress. It is...
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transition. These firms were selected for listing on the exchange and presumably had better access to external capital. In …
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The education systems of EE/CIS countries have undergone negative changes during the past 16 years. My paper examines these changes, identifies their causes and proposes solutions for improvement. I find that improved educational quality is the key for raising students’ enrolment and...
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One feature common to many post-socialist transition economies is a relatively compressed wage structure in the state … acquisition and thus presents adverse consequences for the entire transition economy if a substantial portion of the labor force … outcomes, in a transition setting with matched firm and worker data collected in one of the largest provinces of Vietnam – Ho …
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In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transition to market … fall in employment since 1990 has been similar to other transition economies, leading to a sharp reduction of labor force …
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adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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