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Asian economies and their impact on individual welfare outcomes. Both land redistribution and productivity-enhancing reforms …
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The present study examines the impact of remittances (foreign and domestic) on labour participation decisions and hours …) 2013/14 and 2015/16, this study finds that receiving foreign remittances has a negative impact on the adult labour …. However, the impact of domestic remittances on the decision to participate in the non-domestic labour activity is mixed by …
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Capital reallocation between firms is procyclical and leads to variations in measured aggregate productivity. In this … paper, we ask how much of the cyclical variation in measured productivity is the consequence of capital reallocation. We … build a heterogeneous-firm model to study the effects of exogenous shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) and to the …
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improvement of technologies and processes, thereby increasing labor productivity. Investment research is key to understanding its … purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between fixed capital and R&D investments and labor productivity growth, as … well as to determine the optimal level of these investments in determining the greatest effect on labor productivity growth …
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and 2013. We based our analysis on a theory of learning by doing, where turnover harms productivity by restricting the …This article analyses the effect of labor turnover on the productivity of Brazilian manufacturing firms between 1996 … measurement that takes into account the loss of human capital-resulting from turnover-and its effect on total factor productivity …
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find no evidence that technical change (proxied by the growth of productivity) reduces employment growth. We demonstrate … productivity growth suffers from omitted-variable bias. As the omitted variable is known, we can have a good idea of what the …
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distribution of firm productivity in shaping life-cycle wage profiles by introducing a random search model that disentangles the … effects of firm productivity distribution, on-the-job learning, and labor market frictions on life-cycle wage growth. Using … data from Brazil, Colombia, and the United States, we document strong correlations between the firm productivity …
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identified in the structural literature through which EPL-induced job reallocation affects productivity, innovation, and overall …
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labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that the … small firms, where some forms of flexibility might lead to productivity gains. …
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