The paper aims at explaining the changes in how economic actors and their organizations acquire and coordinate innovative and productive capabilities. Using the illustrative evidence from organizational change in the automobile industry in Piedmont over the last 50 years, the paper describes how transformations in the structure of interactions between firms are steered by changes in the pattern...

Anthony J. Venables LSE and CEPR . Abstract: Growth and development typically involve the creation of new economic activities. New productive sectors develop, and old activities come to be performed in radically different ways. Evidence from both economic history and economic development suggest that this process of structural change is central to increasing growth and raising standards of livi...

Governments can tax productive activities with either uniform or discriminatory rates among taxpayers. Although discriminatory rates can cause productive inefficiency and require high cost of administration, they can be preferred because of their advantage in distributional flexibility. This paper studies the discriminatory taxation of production in the Fertile Crescent. Using information from ...

Abstract We hypothesized productive activities, e.g., working and volunteering, would reduce dementia risk mitigate racial disparities using longitudinal Health, Aging, Body Composition data (n=3,069). ran gender-stratified logistic regression models for with socio-demographic APOE adjustments. Among older men, no significant relationships existed between work, or race in any models. women, una...

This article studies the impact of internal migration and remittance flows on wealth accumulation and distribution in 51 rural villages in Nang Rong, Thailand. Using data from 5,449 households, the study constructs indices of household productive and consumer assets with principal component analysis. The changes in these indices from 1994 to 2000 are modeled as a function of households' prior m...

The advances of production technologies reflect a worldwide trend for sustainability and rational use of resources. As a consequence, some movements for industry reorganization can be observed in geographically dispersed systems with new productive systems (PSs) configurations. These PSs work with small and medium size production lots, product families with increasing variety, and hard delivery...