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The Marginal Product of Capital [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007 Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. Using easily accessible macroeconomic data we find that MPKs are remarkably similar across countries.
Francesco Caselli, James Feyrer
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Intangible capital and firms' productivity [PDF]
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2009 Firms competitive strategy in industrialised countries is increasingly based on activities such as the inventions of new processes and products, the improvements of the employees skill, the creation of a reputation for company’s products. All these actions intend to increase firms economic performances and are labeled as “intangible capital.” The aim ...
MARROCU, EMANUELA +2 more
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Productivity and the Density of Human Capital [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 ABSTRACT We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan area's stock of human capital. Estimation accounts for potential biases due to the endogeneity of density and industrial composition effects. Using new information on output per worker for U.S.
Abel, Jaison R. +2 more
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Is Public Capital Productive in Europe? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 This paper addresses the issue of whether and by how much public investment or public capital can increase GDP. In comparison with the literature on the subject, we apply many different methodologies to answer these questions. A vector autoregressive (VAR) model (for France, Italy, Germany, the UK and the USA), a panel composed of 6 European countries (
Poilon, Gwenaelle, Creel, Jérôme
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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ability measures (two representing the ability to learn and one the ability to earn), a rate of skill depreciation, and a time discount rate.
Polachek, Solomon +2 more
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The Influence of Capital and Labor Factors on Coffee Production In The Regency of Pesisir Selatan, West Sumatra Province [PDF]
, 2022 Coffee has been a leading commodity in Pesisir Selatan Regency however it has not been able to provide high economic value for the community. This is due to coffee production which has decreased during the 2016-2020 period. So as an effort to improve, it
Putra, Febriandi Prima +2 more
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CAPITAL MISALLOCATION AND AGGREGATE FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009 We propose a sectoral–shift theory of aggregate factor productivity for a class of multisector economies with AK technologies and a constant production possibilities frontier. Loans are partly secured by collateral and partly based on reputation. We find that both the growth rate and total factor productivity (TFP) respond to random and persistent ...
Azariadis, Costas, Kaas, Leo
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Intellectual capital: perceptions of productivity a and investment [PDF]
Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2011 This study focuses on the influence intellectual capital has on employees' perceptions as related to both company investments and productivity levels. The data was obtained from 440 employees at 13 Portuguese companies. Both ANOVA and Regression Analysis were conducted in order to understand the impact three Intellectual Capital Scale components have ...
Ferreira, Aristides Isidoro +1 more
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DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF OPEN ARCHITECTURE CNC CONTROLLER USING MATLAB CONSIDERING FRICTION [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Society of TribologyThe growing need for low-cost, high precision CNC machining systems has pushed the research to flexible and open controllers that can handle the limitations of proprietary numerical control systems.
Sabreen A. Abdelwahab +3 more
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Human Capital Prices, Productivity, and Growth [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2012 Separate identification of the price and quantity of human capital has important implications for understanding key issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated and they exhibit a strong secular trend. Three resulting implications are explored: the rising college premium is
Audra J. Bowlus, Chris Robinson
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