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Productivity Spillovers Through Labor Mobility
Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R; Preugschat, Edgar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Do firms have the right incentives to innovate in the presence of productivity spillovers? This paper proposes an …-term wage contracts with their workers, productivity spillovers are fully internalized. If firms cannot commit to long-term wage …
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Unemployment versus Mismatch of Talents: Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … productivity grows less due to larger mismatch. The model can be used to address a number of normative issues. …
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …
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Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
Using a dataset covering over 10,000 Australian primary school teachers and over 90,000 pupils, I estimate how effective teachers are in raising students’ test scores from one exam to the next. Since the exams are conducted only every two years, it is necessary to take account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490570
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Twentieth Century Growth
Crafts, Nicholas; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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The Solow Productivity Paradox in Historical Perspective
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
factor productivity growth of three general-purpose technologies, namely, steam in Britain during 1780-1860, electricity and … contribution of ICT was already relatively large before 1995 and it is suggested that the true productivity paradox is why …
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The Sources of Long-run Growth in Spain 1850-2000
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro; Rosés, Joan R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
European Union Spain has experienced a dramatic productivity slowdown. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124439
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The Sources of Long-term Economic Growth for Turkey, 1880-2005
Altug, Sumru G.; Filiztekin, Alpay; Pamuk, Sevket - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper considers the sources of long-term economic growth for Turkey over the period 1880-2005. The period in question covers the decline and eventual dissolution of the former Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the new Turkish Republic in 1923. Hence, the paper provides a unique look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504216
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Investment-Specific Technical Change in the US (1947-2000): Measurement and Macroeconomic Consequences
Cummins, Jason G; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
and plays a key role in the productivity resurgence of the 1990s. Driving this finding is 4% annual growth in the quality … recent increase in productivity growth is sustainable. …
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Structural Change and Europe's Golden Age
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
. This Paper uses growth accounting to measure the direct contribution of structural change to aggregate productivity growth …-90. The Paper quantifies the importance of structural change in explaining the Golden Age, the productivity slowdown, and the …
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