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Is increasing productivity COVID-19's silver lining?

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present evidence suggesting that the same is true in Canada. In...

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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean small island developing states

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - 2017

In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global …. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …

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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment in retail

Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training programs. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among store managers and sales associates from a large Latin American retailer....

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Reaching up and reaching out : the impact of competition on firms' productivity and export decisions

Hynes, Kate; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei; Yan, Isabel K. M. - 2017

This paper investigates the effect of competition in both the domestic and foreign markets on firm productivity and export decisions using firm level data from 139 countries. Using a Sample Selection Endogenous Treatment (SSET) Poisson model that tackles both the issue of endogenous sample...

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Gender gaps in entrepreneurship and their macroeconomic effects in Latin America : prepared for the Institutions for Development Sector

Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - 2017

This paper studies the aggregate effects of the existing differences between male and female-run firms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the International Labor Organization (ILO), we show that only about one-fourth of the total firms...

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Fixed or open-ended? : labor contracts and productivity in the Colombian manufacturing sector

Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; Obando, Nathalie - 2017

Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates the effect of labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a...

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Returns to teamwork and professional networks : evidence from economic research

Devereux, Kevin - 2021

Teamwork is growing in developed economies, and workers in teams are increasingly compensated according to team output. Because parsing individual contributions to teamwork is difficult, I focus on scholarly economics research, which lists contributing authors. I use turnover to identify team...

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Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession

Devereux, Kevin; Samahita, Margaret - 2022

Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...

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The paradox of the productivity slowdown in the knowledge economy

Antonelli, Cristiano; Orsatti, Gianluca; Pialli, Guido - 2023

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Serial entrepreneurs and the macroeconomy

Sedlácek, Petr; Karmakar, Sudipto; Felix, Sonia - 2021

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