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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …

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Avaliando o desempenho da indústria brasileira

Mendonça, Márcio Jorge; Pereira, Rodrigo Mendes; … - 2022

In this study we investigate the performance of Brazilian industry based on productivity and efficiency indicators. We associate productivity with the concept of total factor productivity (TFP) while efficiency is measured based on the stochastic frontier production model that indicates how far...

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Productive consumption and growth in developing countries

Steger, Thomas M. - 1997

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Labor Productivity in Brazil During the 1990s

Bonelli, Régis - 2015

The Brazilian economy was characterized in the 1990s by marked changes from previous decades, many of which induced by economic policy: trade and financial liberalization, privatization, other State reform measures and the beginnings of economic stabilization with the implementation of the Real...

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Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

Kaur, Supreet; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Oh, Suanna; … - 2021

others. This manipulation holds constant wages and piece rates, as well as human and physical capital. On cash-rich days …

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The Role of ICT on Productivity Growth in Australia : A Long-Run Perspective

Shahiduzzaman, Md - 2015

respect to ICT capital deepening, explores the nature of long-run causality among productivity growth and ICT and non …-ICT capital deepening. The estimates of long-run elasticities are derived by employing both time-series and panel data econometric … techniques. The empirical results provide strong confirmatory evidence of the long-run impact of ICT capital deepening on labour …

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Institutional change and productivity growth in China's manufacturing 1998 - 2007 : the microeconomics of creative restructuring

Dosi, Giovanni; Lei, Jiasu; Yu, Xiaodan - 2013

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity. A major process of both...

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The aggregate implications of size dependent distortions

Roys, Nicolas - 2016

This paper examines the aggregate implications of size-dependent distortions. These regulations misallocate labor across firms and hence reduce aggregate productivity. It then considers a case-study of labor laws in France where firms that have 50 employees or more face substantially more...

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Productive consumption and growth in developing countries

Steger, Thomas M. - 1997

preferences but in addition on the technological possibilities to enhance human capital due to productive consumption, (d) a …

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European Integration, Productivity Growth and Real Convergence : Evidence from the New Member States

Kutan, Ali Mustafa - 2009

exports improve productivity, but imports hurt it. Regarding domestic variables, we find that human capital is the most …

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