To illustrate productivity gains through technical progress
Technical progress in North and welfare gains in South under nonhomothetic preferences
... havior through a function of hierarchic ...allow technical progress to change the relative degree of priority of each ...that technical progress, by the creation of new goods, leads to ...
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Sources of productivity gains from FDI in Indonesia: Is it efficiency improvement or technological progress?
... of productivity gains in the food-processing and electrical machinery industries are important to policy making in ...occur through efficiency improvements, FDI that generate managerial and organi- ...
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Productivity Growth, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change in African Agriculture
... tural productivity and growth, driven by technology and investments, has a powerful dynamic effect that benefits the poor throughout the econ- omy: directly through increased agricultural income and ...
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Exports, Technical Progress and Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing Industries
... dynamic productivity gains derived from exports often assume the prior existence of a perfect ...factor productivity (TFP) growth in a transition economy using a panel of Chinese manufacturing ...
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A Retake on Productivity Growht, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change using Malmquist Productivity Indexes.
... of productivity could be expected to place ...in productivity that Japan displayed during the ...Malmquist productivity change index results worsened, Japan still placed ...Malmquist ...
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Technical progress, inefficiency and productivity change in U.S. banking, 1984-1993
... different sizes, and their sample excludes the very small banks whose numbers have declined the most in recent years and which may well have felt the largest effects of deregulation and technical change. As Berger ...
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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress
... labour productivity growth with micro-evidence of productivity trends in the construction ...quantify productivity gains should be gathered and surveyed or undertaken if not ...on ...
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Agricultural Productivity Growth, Efficiency Change and Technical Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean
... in productivity was observed in non-ruminants (10 percent) and ruminant production (5 ...pre-1988 productivity levels in the year ...agriculture, through production in small plots within cities, and ...
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Searching for Productivity Gains through 'Once-a-Day' Milking on New Zealand's Pastoral Dairy Farms
... The historical evidence from the New Zealand dairy industry is that selective breeding over time results in cows that are able to tolerate changes in milk harvesting procedures, and that practices once considered ...
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Characterizing technical progress.
... Factor Productivity (TFP, henceforth), is the single most important determinant of aggregate economic ...out through aggregate or sectorial production functions, using capital, labor, and human capital as ...
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"Do higher energy prices promote productivity gains?"
... Malmquist productivity indexes proposed by Maniadakis and Thanassoulis (2004) are estimated for the industry and transport sector of eleven OECD coun- tries from ...the productivity index and its ...
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Total Factor Productivity Growth, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change in Vietnam Coal Industry – Nonparametric Approach
... Some conventional methods were listed for calculating Malmquist productivity index (Färe et al., 1994). Most of them, however, require specification of a functional form of technology. A DEA approach was proposed ...
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Economic Theory and Technical Progress
... of technical progress effectively began with Roy Harrod's very simple device of considering a rate of productivity growth side by side with the rate of population growth, in a dynamic model (Harrod, ...
Productivity Gains From Unemployment Insurance
... welfare gains, because under this scheme, low unemployment rates in the early years ensure that the government runs a primary budget surplus, which is never redistributed to the ...
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Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration
... Interestingly, the importance varies depending on which part of the firm quality distribution is fitted to equation (2) – ranging from .107 for firms one standard deviation above the mean to .083 for firms one standard ...
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Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring
... The shift abroad of economic activities is a major issue for empirical research on the risks and opportunities of an ever more integrated global economy. Initially called relocation, then international outsourcing or ...
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Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance
... This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create those jobs. We use a quantitative ...
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Productivity gains from unemployment insurance
... 5. Robustness We consider four robustness checks on our model. First, we raise the relative value of leisure by a factor of six, to g"1. This increases the importance of traditional moral hazard, as insured workers ...
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Returns to Scale, Technical Progress and Total Factor Productivity Growth in New Zealand Industries
... multifactor productivity after 1993” and that “average multifactor productivity growth increased from ...average productivity difference between the two ...
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Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition
... obtaining productivity indexes is consistent with a distance function approach to the measurement of productivity ...of productivity change can be implemented without making any assumptions about ...
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