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Publikováno v:
International Productivity Monitor, Iss 13, Pp 27-45 (2006)
Employed Canadians worked an average of 157 hours less per year than employed Americans during 1997-2004. This one month less per year spent on the job is a significant contributor to the difference in GDP per capita between Canada and the United Sta
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Publikováno v:
Asia-Pacific Development Journal. 24:53-87
Because of the ambition, comprehensiveness and complexity of the 17 goals and 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the implementation of it is very difficult, especially for developing countries such as Pakistan. The present pa
Publikováno v:
International Productivity Monitor, Iss 13, Pp 27-45 (2006)
Employed Canadians worked an average of 157 hours less per year than employed Americans during 1997-2004. This one month less per year spent on the job is a significant contributor to the difference in GDP per capita between Canada and the United Sta
Autor:
Alberto Isgut
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Studies. 40:59-86
This article emphasises the role of locational factors in the determination of rural non-farm (RNF) employment possibilities in rural Honduras. It finds that while RNF wage jobs are predominantly located close to urban areas, RNF self-employment jobs
Autor:
Alberto Isgut, R. Gaston Gelos
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 74:85-89
Using two largely novel datasets, we examine how Colombians and Mexicans invest in response to imbalances between actual and “desired” capital stock levels. Nonparametric estimates of the average adjustment function support the presence of irreve
Autor:
Alberto Isgut
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Studies. 37:57-82
Using a large panel of Colombian manufacturing plants, this paper finds that exporters are significantly larger, more capital intensive, have higher labour productivity, and pay higher wages than nonexporters three years before exporting for the firs
Autor:
Gaston Gelos, Alberto Isgut
Publikováno v:
The Review of Economics and Statistics. 83(4):717-726
We examine capital adjustment patterns using two large and largely novel plant-level data sets from the manufacturing sectors of Colombia and Mexico. The data suggest that irreversibilities play a more important role than in more-advanced economies.
Autor:
Alberto Isgut
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Finance & Economics. 6:171-183
In the sovereign debt literature of the 1980s, countries formulated optimal borrowing plans subject to a credit ceiling imposed by their lenders. This paper analyzes the case where the credit ceiling is not known with certainty. The baseline determin
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement. 20:545-566
The main rationale for the implementation of structural reforms favoring free markets is that they, through increased competition, are likely to create incentives to improve the way firms operate i.e. firm efficiency. In this study we measure and ana
Autor:
Alberto Isgut
Publikováno v:
Ensayos sobre Política Económica. :5-34
Los principales contendientes en el debate teorico sobre las causas del crecimiento economico son el modelo neoclasico de crecimiento y los nuevos modelos de crecimiento endogeno. La principal discrepancia es sobre el rol de la tecnologia: Mientras q