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Nature Communications, 2017 Continued warming and melting of Arctic sea-ice have led to increases in Labrador Sea phytoplankton productivity in recent decades. Here, the authors utilize a novel annually resolved palaeoproxy and propose that the recently observed increase in surface
P. Chan +8 more
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Productivity in Canada: Does Firm Size Matter? [PDF]
The research findings highlighted in this article suggest that firm-size differences play a significant role in explaining the productivity gap between Canada and the United States.
Césaire Meh, Danny Leung, Yaz Terajima
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The acceleration in U.S. total productivity after 1995: the role of information technology [PDF]
Under standard conditions, total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures the pace of innovation or technological change in the economy. This article focuses on the period since the mid-1990s, when TFP accelerated.
John Fernald, Shanthi Ramnath
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Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance [PDF]
The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003.
Estache, Antonio +2 more
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Quantity, Quality, and Relevance: Central Bank Research, 1990-2003 [PDF]
The authors document the research output of 34 central banks from 1990 to 2003, and use proxies of research inputs to measure the research productivity of central banks over this period.
Annie Guérard-Langlois +3 more
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Quantifying and predicting success in show business
Nature Communications, 2019 For most actors sustained productivity defines success. Here the authors study the careers of actors and identify a "rich-get-richer" mechanism with respect to productivity, the emergence of hot streaks and the presence of gender bias, and are able to ...
Oliver E. Williams +2 more
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The microeconomics of creating productive jobs : a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies [PDF]
The challenge for labor market policy in the transition economies has been to redress the sharp drops in employment and rises in unemployment in a way that fosters the creation of productive jobs. The authors first document the magnitude and productivity
Brown, J. David, Earle, John S.
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PARAMETERS OF BARLEY HARVEST AT INCREASED SEEDING RATES IN KRASNOYARSK FOREST-STEPPE
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 The paper shows the effect of the sowing of barley on the formation of individual elements of productivity. It also provides data on the dependence of the yield and specific cenotic productivity of barley on the seeding rate and varietal characteristics.
S. A. Gerasimov, N. E. Liakhova
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China's pattern of growth : moving to sustainability and reducing inequality [PDF]
The authors study the sources and pattern of China's impressive economic growth over the past 25 years and show that key issues currently of concern to policymakers-widening inequality, rural poverty, and resource intensity-are to a large extent rooted ...
Kuijs, Louis, Wang, Tao
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Information technology and productivity: where are we now and where are we going? [PDF]
Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts linked to developments in information technology (IT). However, shortly after this consensus emerged, demand for IT products fell sharply,
Daniel E. Sichel, Stephen D. Oliner
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