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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Teal, Francis; Baptist, Simon - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … in the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …

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Does performance related pay for teachers improve student performance? Some evidence from India

Teal, Francis; Kingdon, Geeta - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

In this paper data from a school survey in India is used to ask whether there is evidence for the payment of performance related pay and whether such pay structures do impact on student achievement. It is shown that - after controlling for student ability, parental background and the resources...

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Are African Manufacturing Firms Really Inefficient? Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

: their technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices is … not due to a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … distortions could be removed substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … differentials could be levelled out, substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

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Climate and Scale in Economic Growth

Masters, William A; McMillan, Margaret S - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

agriculture into sectors whose productivity converges across countries, while tropical countries` growth is relatively more …

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Twentieth Century Growth

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Crafts, Nicholas - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

This paper surveys the experience of economic growth in the 20th century with a focus on technological change at the frontier together with issues related to success and failure in catch-up growth. A detailed account of growth performance based on historical national accounts data is given and...

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Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity?.

Knight, J.; Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

Increasing wage inequality is a feature of many economies in recent years, and the same is true of China. Whereas in most countries it is normally interpreted as a move from one market equilibrium to another, in China it is more likely to reflect a move away from extreme disequilibirum. Two...

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Cost Structure Analysis Under Disequilibrium: Price, Scale, Efficiency and Capacity Utilisation Effects.

Sarkis, Z. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

of firm-level heterogeneity in technical and allocative efficiency levels. FDM is implemented on a G-5 banking dataset …

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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … bonuses makes them cheat more but has no effect on their productivity. We also find that more productive workers behave more …

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Why has China grown so fast?Â The role of international technology transfer

Yueh, Linda; Yueh, Linda; Reenen, John Van - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

joint ventures in general and I have large effects on productivity especially when combined with a technology transfer …

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