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Pillars Of Growth In Nebraska's Non-Metropolitan Economy, Eric Thompson, Ernie Goss, Chris Decker, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Bruce Johnson, Ben Schmitz, Julian Neira, Pavel Jeutang
Pillars Of Growth In Nebraska's Non-Metropolitan Economy, Eric Thompson, Ernie Goss, Chris Decker, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Bruce Johnson, Ben Schmitz, Julian Neira, Pavel Jeutang
Economics Faculty Publications
Agriculture is a critical part of Nebraska’s economy, and changes in the fortunes of agriculture play an important role in the success of the state’s non-metropolitan regions. Trends toward consolidation and rising productivity in agriculture, however, have raised concerns about the future of non-metropolitan Nebraska. Some citizens and policymakers have begun to wonder if the economy can create sufficient job opportunities for non-metropolitan residents. The answer to this question depends not only upon the relative strength of the agricultural sector, but also upon the presence of other industries that can join agriculture as pillars for employment growth in non-metropolitan Nebraska. …
Scale Effects And Labor Productivity, Jürgen Antony
Scale Effects And Labor Productivity, Jürgen Antony
Jürgen Antony
The topic of this thesis is the impact of scale effects onto labor productivity and its implications. Chapter one gives an overview of the economic literature on scale effects. It starts with reviewing early economic writings; summarizes the literature of the new trade theory, the new economic geography and the new growth theory and looks upon scale effects in the economics of integration. Last but not least it motivates the chapters to come. Chapter two deals with wage inequality between different types of labor in models of endogenous growth with scale effects in the growth rate of an economy or …
Cataloging Unit Statistics 2005-2006, Amar K. Lahiri
Cataloging Unit Statistics 2005-2006, Amar K. Lahiri
Technical Services Reports and Statistics
Annual productivity statistics from the Cataloging Unit of the University of Rhode Island Library for 2005-2006. Includes total number of copy-cataloged records and original catalog records created. Also includes bibliographic and item records created, modified, and deleted in the local Innovative Interfaces library system.
Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Transfer To Nigerian Manufacturing Firms: Evidence From Empirical Data., Nasiru Musa Yauri
Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Transfer To Nigerian Manufacturing Firms: Evidence From Empirical Data., Nasiru Musa Yauri
Economic and Financial Review
The paper investigates the vertical effects of FDI on Nigeria manufacturing firms. Specifically, the paper asks, do Nigerian manufacturing firms benefits from FDI? As an investigation into the vertical effects of FDI , the paper attempts to establish whether manufacturing firms in Nigeria that receives FDI benefit from technology flows which comes along with foreign capital. The paper employs data from the World Bank Nigerian manufacturing survey, 2001.
Technological Change And U.S. Productivity Growth In The Interwar Years, Alexander J. Field
Technological Change And U.S. Productivity Growth In The Interwar Years, Alexander J. Field
Economics
Manufacturing contributed almost all—83 percent—of the growth of total factor productivity in the U.S. private nonfarm economy between 1919 and 1929. During the depression manufacturing TFP growth was not as uniformly distributed, and only half as rapid, accounting for only 48 percent of PNE TFP growth. Yet the overall growth of the residual between 1929 and 1941 was the highest of any comparable period in the twentieth century. This resulted from the combination of a still potent manufacturing contribution with advances in transportation, public utilities, and distribution, fueled in part by investments in public infrastructure.
Technical Change And Us Economic Growth: The Interwar Period And The 1990s, Alexander J. Field
Technical Change And Us Economic Growth: The Interwar Period And The 1990s, Alexander J. Field
Economics
Multifactor productivity growth in the U.S. economy between 1919 and 1929 was almost entirely attributable to advance within manufacturing. Distributing steam power mechanically over shafts and belts required multistory buildings for economical operation. The widespread diffusion of electric power permitted a shift to single story layouts in which goods flow could be optimized around work stations powered by small electric motors. Within this framework, as well as opportunities to produce a variety of new products, economies of scale and learning by doing permitted rapid and across the board gains in manufacturing productivity. The sector contributed 83 percent of the 2.02 …