Showing papers in "Journal of Development Economics in 1981"

TL;DR: In this paper, three firm attributes are identified as being potentially related to firm efficiency: firm ownership, age, and size, and the importance of these attributes as sources of inefficiency in the Indonesian weaving industry is investigated and implications of the find,ings discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the empirical relationship between economic growth and export expansion in developing countries as observed through an intercountry cross-section was analyzed, and the results indicated that export performance was important, along with capital formation, in explaining the intercountry variance in GDP growth rates during the 1960-1977 period.

TL;DR: The authors developed a two-country model of capital accumulation and growth where the industrial sector exhibits increasing returns to scale and showed that "uneven development" is a necessary outcome in such a model: an initial discrepancy in capital-abor ratios between the two countries will cumulate over time, leading to the division of the world into a capital-rich.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a model of linkage between land, labor and credit transactions in the context of sharecropping and derived and characterized the equilibrium in a land-scarce, labour-abundant economy under share cropping, given an infinitely elastic supply of identical sharecroppers at a reservation utility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critique the results, assumptions, and policies commonly associated with agricultural credit projects in low-income countries and present new views on these projects, emphasizing voluntary savings mobilization and positive real rates of interest.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytic version of the Latin American structuralist theory of inflation is presented, which emphasizes the difference between the productive sectors of the economy and draws attention to the fact that the inflationary process is closely linked to inconsistent claims for shares in income.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general equilibrium macro model is constructed to explore the effects of export-led growth policies on the terms of trade and the domestic distribution of a developing region with abundant labour.

TL;DR: In this article, additional evidence of an empirical test of the productivity-consumption relation of the efficiency wage hypothesis was examined and it was concluded that increased energy availability may not necessarily result in increased productivity of rural workers who are moderately energy deficient.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that the process governing variations in daily energy balances in human beings is not yet fully understood and a satisfactory theoretical framework for it has yet to emerge.

TL;DR: In this paper, alternative welfare measures are proposed that take into account both the level and distribution of income, and an empirical application shows that there are substantial differences among countries with respect to the level of welfare, even among subgroups such as mature capitalist economies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple, two-sector, small-country model is proposed to evaluate the effect of foreign aid on the relative share of tradable to non-tradable goods in the country's production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used trading partners' data comparisons at three different levels of refinement to verify whether the elimination of an over-valued exchange rate, which itself has been claimed to lead to overvaluation of imports, affects the valuation practice of importers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed estimates of real output, real input, and total factor productivity for South Korea for the period 1960-1973 and found that the average annual growth rates were 9.7, 5.5, and 41% higher than the major developed countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the behavior of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil's electrical industry in four areas: the association of firms with particular types of domestic market structures, their technology, their trade conduct, and their profitability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of an increase in the rate of urban job creation on migration and urban unemployment was analyzed and the different results obtained when the issue was previously analyzed are reconciled.

TL;DR: In this article, a model is proposed to compute the producer price of cocoa that maximizes either export duty receipts or export earnings, and the optimum price is higher than the prevailing producer price.

TL;DR: Sen's classic work on the choice of capital intensity of investment is generalized in the light of new theoretical developments and empirical findings concerning rural-to-urban migration in LDCs by explicitly incorporating a migration function into the basic choice model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived orders of magnitudes for the economic value of increases in preschool children ability scores, i.e., the demand price for early abilities, and used this information to 'price' interventions that can increase ability scores of chronically deprived children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the central notion of the hypothesis of factor complementarity between preschool ability and schooling in determining labor productivity was introduced, and an analytical framework was specified to derive magnitudes of the economic cost of this misallocation.

TL;DR: A 1976 Social Accounting Matrix for Egypt is presented and the methods of estimation used are described briefly as mentioned in this paper, some of the implications of the accounting are discussed and the information on the distribution of taxes and subsidies indicates that the latter are the major source of progressiveness in the fiscal system.

TL;DR: This paper examined the substitution possibilities between capital and materials and labor and materials since raw materials might be used to overcome the bottlenecks caused by shortages of physical capital and skilled labor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the recent experience of Argentina, a country suffering from a very high rate of inflation, and found that the increase in relative price variability which is associated with higher rates of inflation is caused mainly by "surprises" or unanticipated changes in the inflation rate and that fully expected inflation appears to have less or no relative-price effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ the effective protection model to evaluate the incidence of ad valorem transport charges (freight factors) on U.S. imports at various stages in the production process, with special emphasis on their impact upon the development of manufacturing activities in LDC's.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the steady-state dynamics and developed policy rules in a two-sector optimum growth model with urban unemployment, where people migrate from the rural sector to the urban sector in response to a difference between the minimum expected urban wage and the actual rural wage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors isolate a single commodity, copper, and a single country, Zambia, which copper export earnings loom large in the economy, and present an econometric model of the country, consisting of a disaggregated copper export sector with links to a macro-model of the whole economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a closed input-output model is applied to the Indian data to estimate the interrelationships between trade, growth and income redistribution, and it has been found that employment opportunities could be raised substantially through redistribution as well as through export promotion in developing countries such as India, if capital and foreign exchange constraints are not binding.

TL;DR: The authors construct a dynamic model of dual labor market, incorporating firm investment behavior and household investment behavior on education, and obtain sharply different long-run determinants of income distribution between these alternative models.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the relation between the inequality band and the degree of sectoral interdependence and found that under certain assumptions one can show a direct correspondence between the two, with the equality range narrowing as the linkages increase.

TL;DR: In this paper, a parametric approach to the analysis of total and specific factor productivity was developed, which does not rely on the above assumptions and applies it to the industrial sector on Iraq.