Factors influencing labor productivity in modern economies: A review and qualitative text analysis

MJ Radło, AF Tomeczek - WSEAS Transactions on Environment …, 2022 - cor.sgh.waw.pl
We conduct a semi-systematic literature review and a qualitative text analysis of 141
publications on labor productivity. We have identified 12 factors that play a leading role in …

Returns to schooling in European emerging markets: a meta-analysis

N Horie, I Iwasaki - Education Economics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 1599 estimates extracted from 69 previous studies to
identify time-series changes in returns to schooling in 20 European emerging markets. We …

Firm efficiency: Domestic owners, coalitions, and FDI

J Hanousek, E Kočenda, M Mašika - Economic Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large
panel of more than 190,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their …

Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, and Skilled Labour Demand in E astern E urope

GSF Bruno, R Crinò, AM Falzoni - Labour, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we study the effects of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade on
relative skilled labour demand in P oland, H ungary, and the C zech R epublic. Our …

How powerful are network effects? A skill-biased technological change approach

O Afonso, M Magalhäes - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Even for the standard skill-biased technological change (SBTC) literature, the generic rise in
the skill premium in the face of the relative increase in skilled workers since the 1980s …

[LLIBRE][B] Globális értékláncok, szakosodás és feljebb lépés: Magyarországi feldolgozóipari leányvállalatok tapasztalatai

A Szalavetz - 2019 - real.mtak.hu
8. A funkcionális feljebb lépés hatása a leányvállalatok teljesítménymutatóira és
autonómiájára–elmélet és empíria 75 8.1. Az adatelemzés eredményei és tanulságai 78 8.2 …

Population growth and the wage skill premium

PC Neves, Ó Afonso, TN Sequeira - Economic Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
We develop a general equilibrium directed technical change model with growth of skilled
and unskilled labour in order to analyse the effect of heterogeneous population growth on …

Learning-by-doing, technology-adoption costs and wage inequality

O Afonso, R Leite - Economic Modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
In the dominant literature, the technological-knowledge bias that drives wage inequality is
determined by the market-size channel. We develop an endogenous growth model with two …

Foreign-affiliate presence and skilled labour demand

M Souare, B Zhou - International Economics and Economic Policy, 2016 - Springer
This paper investigates the effect of inward foreign investment on the relative employment of
skilled labour. The extensive review of the empirical evidence shows that the results seem to …

[LLIBRE][B] Impacts of FDI Presence and Product Sophistication on the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labour: Evidence from SMEs in Viet Nam

QH Truong, D Van Chung - 2023 - eria.org
This study employs data from the Viet Nam Enterprise Survey (VES) for 2007 and 2011) to
examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) and product sophistication as well as …