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aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …
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Over the last three decades, Total Factor Productivity growth in Latin America has disappointed and informality … manufacturing exports grew from 7 to 33 per cent of GDP, but labor informality barely changed, firm informality increased, and TFP … the sector composition of the economy. In the first, case we show that high productivity formal firms exited; surviving …
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Trade shocks generated by trade policy reform are important for firm productivity. In particular, export opportunities … learning-by-exporting effect. I also find that firms that simultaneously export and invest have the highest returns to these … export-related technology. Finally, I find that firm heterogeneity has important influence on the productivity gains …
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', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into …' decision to export. The model sheds light on the affirmations of the founding models of the 'new theory of international trade … firms, regardless of their productivity level, enter foreign markets every year with little sales and cease all exporting …
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productivity premia. In particular, we focused on 25 emerging Countries, and through a machine learning method, we evaluate how the … results show that (1) the learning by exporting hypothesis is still valid when firms export indirectly; (2) direct exporters …The aim of our research is to investigate whether the choice to export directly versus indirect export plays a role in …
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exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … inconclusive so far. The authors explain this inconclusiveness by drawing on Arrow's (1962) characterization of learning …
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machine learning predictive models. Objectives: In this paper, we address the above named problem by applying deep learning … models to predict terminal call rate. Methods/Approach: We have developed a series of deep learning models on a data set … suggests that deep learning is an approach worth exploring further, however, with the disadvantage being that it requires large …
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Firm turnover (i.e., firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sector-level productivity growth. In contrast … important component of productivity growth. The topic of switching merits attention in the future design of firm surveys across …
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This study explores firm-level data from the Philippines to uncover new stylized facts about the participation of manufacturing small and medium enterprise (SMEs) in global value chains (GVCs). The empirical analysis shows that manufacturing SMEs are weakly connected to foreign markets,...
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Although wage inequality is an important and widely studied issue, the literature is vastly silent on the relationship between firm entry and exit and the wage dispersion between firms. Using a 50% random administrative sample of West German establishments over the period 1976–2017, I study...
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