cooperatives, established through a unification of human and economic capital within their members can lead to strengthening of the social capital. the main purpose of this descriptive – correlational research was to investigate the influence of membership in production cooperatives on the level of social capital. the statistical population for the study consisted of: poultry producers in coope...

We decompose labor productivity growth into components attributable to technological change, technological catch-up, foreign capital deepening, domestic capital deepening, and human capital accumulation, thus separating the effects of foreign and domestic capital deepening on productivity growth and convergence. We apply nonparametric production-frontier methods to a worldwide 1980-2005 panel a...

The increase in wage inequality since 1980 in the United States has been more pronounced in larger cities, even after accounting for di¤erences in the composition of the workforce across locations. Using Census of Population and Census of Manufacturers data aggregated to the local labor market level, this paper examines the importance of changes in the factor bias of agglomeration economies, ca...

This paper studies how managers at automobile assembly plants organize production across time. Detailed data from eleven single-source automobile assembly plants display considerable cross-plant heterogeneity. At plants which make lowand medium-selling vehicles the capital stock often sits idle, production is more variable than sales, and weeklong shutdowns are often used to vary output. In con...

This paper describes a comparative empirical study of the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) capital, human capital and new organizational practices on labour productivity in Greek and Swiss firms. We use firm-level data collected in 2005 through a common questionnaire administered to samples of similar composition (e.g. similar firm sizes, similar sectors), from which we ...

We contribute to the literature on optimal growth in two-sector models by solving a Ramsey problem with a concave utility function. The unique possible steady-state is independent of initial conditions and of the instantaneous utility function, but not of the discount rate, and is characterized by a wage-rental ratio depending solely on the technology of the capital sector. For an initially low...

The objective of this research is to analyses the influence Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Loan Deposit (LDR), Size, Operations Expenses Income (BOPO), toward Profitability Domestic Banks and Foreign in January 2003 until December 2007. This also used Chow Test between State Owned Banks. time series data from Bank Indonesia’s three-monthly domestic published financial reports. After passed purpo...

Human capital attainment among workers plays an important role in determining firm’s output and labor productivity, hence enhances firm’s competitiveness. More educated workers are believed to be more efficient and productive, reduce cost of production and raise the capability of firms to compete especially in the global market.. The intention of the Malaysian government to create the Bumiputer...

April 3, 2011 Abstract How does access to imported capital goods affect the quality of investment in poor countries? From 1949 to 1957, China imported most of its industrial plants from the Soviet Union, but in the late 1950s a series of political disputes ended their trading relationship. In 1960, China entered a period of autarky which persisted until 1978. In market settings, closure to capi...