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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Productivity Growth"”.
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Essays on productivity growth in agriculture
… to explore the current trends in agricultural productivity and analyse its impact on the global farm and food system. Chapter 2 in this dissertation looks at the current trends in agricultural productivity in India—one most of the populous country in the world. In this chapter, productivity …
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Sources of productivity growth in Vietnam: Three essays
This thesis examines the sources of productivity growth in Vietnam, a developing country that has been transitioning from a centrally-planned economy to a more market-oriented one since 1986. Following the introduction, which sets the motivation and scope of the study, the thesis is organised into …
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Sources of productivity growth in Vietnam: Three essays
This thesis examines the sources of productivity growth in Vietnam, a developing country that has been transitioning from a centrally-planned economy to a more market-oriented one since 1986. Following the introduction, which sets the motivation and scope of the study, the thesis is organised into …
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Modeling and measuring technical change and productivity growth
… to the index number approach to total factor productivity (TFP) growth, incorporating recent theoretical developments in dynamic cost functions that shed light on the effects and role of quasi-fixed factors in the short-run of manufacturing.
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Depletion, Technology and Productivity Growth in Metallic Minerals Industry
… characteristics, and conditions of hosting. Productivity growth in any given metal industry is therefore governed by not only the advancements in technology, but also this unique variation in its natural input in course of cumulative extraction and depletion. <br/><br/>Detailed analysis of …
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Labor market institutions and productivity growth: A six-country comparison
This study investigates problems of productivity growth with special emphasis on institutions in the labor market. Two major classes of labor market institutions are analyzed: corporatism and liberal-pluralism. To examine why productivity growth rates differ among national economies, this thesis …
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Heterogeneous Technological Changes and Their Impacts on Income Inequality and Productivity Growth
… their impacts on wage inequality and economic growth. In particular, I distinguish between skill-complementing and skill-replacing technological changes, with an emphasis on the latter. Skill-replacing technological change can take the form of an organizational change, or the development of a …
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Structure, Productivity Growth and Spillover Effects: An Empirical Investigation of Indonesian Manufacturing
… to find a robust spillover effects in term of productivity level and growth. These results raise questions to justify long-term incentives for foreign investors, provided by many LDCs to win a fierce competition among themselves in attracting foreign firms to invest in their countries.
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High speed railway productivity : how does organizational restructuring contribute to HSR productivity growth?
… and vertical separation, this thesis applied "productivity analysis". First, we set Tokaido Shinkansen and the Paris-Lyon line as our research object because that these lines introduced the latest technology when it had been constructed. This means the technological development which increases …
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Is the Share of Agricultural Maintenance Research Rising? Implications for Future Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture
… gains. Maintenance research is in contrast to productivity enhancing research which attempts to increase efficiency or productivity beyond previously attained thresholds. In 1986, Adusei and Norton conducted a survey of agricultural scientists across the United States to measure the amount of …
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Sources of Productivity Growth and Its Relation to the Distribution of Income in Industrialized Countries and Korea
Income growth and a more equitable distribution of income with the alleviation of poverty are the most important concern of the economists. So, the area of economic growth and income distribution has been drawing growing attention to many development economists and policy makers since the early …
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Technological progress and environmental regulation as drivers of productivity growth : evidence from the U.S. coal industry, 1972-1994
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy Program, 1996.
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Ex-Ante Welfare Effects From Scale-Neutral Productivity Growth for Semi-Subsistence Orphan Crops: Genetically Modified Cassava in Sub-Sahara Africa
The results find that the estimation of production and home consumption elasticities of cassava producers may need to account for producers' self-selections on whether to be a seller and whether to sell at distant markets to correct the estimation bias. Conventional EDM may overestimate total …
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Essays on the Use of Duality, Robust Empirical Methods, Panel Treatments, and Model Averaging with Applications to Housing Price Index Construction and World Productivity Growth
… is mainly determined by two parts: inputs and productivity. Compared with the inputs, which are concrete and measurable, productivity is an unobservable factor that relies on economic models for estimation. An appropriate and robust modeling method is essential if we want to accurately capture …
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Three empirical essays on mergers and regulation in the telecommunications industry
… Essay 1: This study has attempted to measure the productivity growth associated with 25 incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) over the period 1996-2005 using a Malmquist productivity index. The average efficiency scores for our sample companies have not changed significantly between 1996 and …
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Business Model Innovation and Productivity
… has been generally expected to help enhance productivity in many industries. However, recent global statistics show that productivity growth has slowed down in major industrialised nations, especially so in the United Kingdom since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. This phenomenon is now known …
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Productivity and costs in the transit sector : the impact of Baumol's cost disease
… covers several topics related to transit costs, productivity, efficiency, and benefits. We first show that labor productivity growth among transit agencies in the United States is slow or stagnant, and it is significantly lower than productivity growth in most industries. According to Baumol's …
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Productivity and efficiency of hotels in Singapore
Low productivity growth in the hotel sector is a growing concern for Singapore in the next lap of a??developeda?? status. To address its challenges, this dissertation has four objectives. A model is developed for estimating total factor productivity growth (TFPG) at sectoral level and the hotel …
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Africa
… countries. It can potentially promote long-term growth and development through knowledge and technology transfers from foreign firms to domestic agents in host countries. With these benefits in mind, especially in relation to low-income African countries characterized by underdeveloped domestic …
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