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What Are The Drivers of Labor Productivity in Italy?

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel sign restriction identification within a structural Bayesian vector autoregression (VAR) to analyse how labour productivity responds to supply and demand shocks and to quantify the contribution of shocks to cyclical fluctuations.
Josué Diwambuena, Francesco Ravazzolo
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conditionality was a central concern in the development literature of the 1990s. With the significant expansion of targeted public support to private firms since the Great Financial Crisis, the issue of conditionality has once again become a focal point in industrial policy debates.
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor
wiley   +1 more source

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

Technical Change Through Global Value Chains: Evidence From Firms Worldwide

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on firms' innovation, productivity, and other indicators of technical change. Our dataset encompasses heterogeneous firms from 144 countries at different income levels over the period 2006–2025.
Ivan Ledezma   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 984-1004, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
wiley   +1 more source

International Graduates' Stay Rate, Country‐Level Economic Differences and Social Networks: Evidence From 25 European Countries

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between the stay rate of international university graduates, economic characteristics of their origin and destination countries, and proxies of their social networks. It contributes to the literature by jointly testing predictions of the neoclassical and migration network theories using regression ...
Filip Němeček
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Reconfiguration of Agriculture Sustainability in APEC Countries: Trade Exposure, Technological Transition, and Climate Constraints

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 14, Page 10479-10493, 30 August 2026.
ABSTRACT In developing economies, the agricultural sector enhances national food security, employment, and economic prosperity, while it is also closely linked to the ecological system. International trade, technological innovations, and fertilizer use are modern inputs to increase output; however, their unsustainable use leads to environmental ...
Jie Yue, Yichen Yao, Bin Gong
wiley   +1 more source

An alternative approach to music education research: Utilising Q‐methodology and activity theory to identify and compare international cross‐cultural viewpoints of classroom music teachers' assessment beliefs in England and Singapore

open access: yesReview of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract Assessment is a contested term in school conceptualisation and practices. Assessment in music education has a variety of meanings, and complexities can arise from music teacher and school leader understandings of the term. Using an activity theory conceptual framework and Q methodology, this longitudinal research project sought to develop ...
Anthony Anderson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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