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measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on …
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in...
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analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects …
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Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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Kenya’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual progress report highlights that sound macroeconomic management policies are finally beginning to yield results in terms of macroeconomic growth, which is the underpinning for future poverty reduction. A high degree of price stability has been...
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Canada’s macroeconomic and policy performance has continued to outshine most other industrial countries, and its outlook remains favorable. The new government has pledged to maintain the strong social consensus in favor of fiscal surpluses, while aiming at enhancing incentives. The new...
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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standard (Solow-style) growth accounting methodologies. We find that factor accumulation (especially labor), rather than growth … of capital accumulation and some natural constraints on labor, the strong growth momentum is unlikely to be sustainable …
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