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productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …
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The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches …This Paper studies the inter-temporal problem of a monopolistic firm that engages in productivity-enhancing innovations … time. Otherwise, it will gradually reduce its innovation effort over time and ultimately terminate production. Productivity …
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-state equilibria in which productivity grows at the same rate as wages, the real interest rate is below the laissez-faire level, and so …-equilibrium model with endogenous productivity growth. For real wage growth above laissez-faire levels, we obtain steady … constant rate equal to the difference between the growth rates of productivity and output. This contrasts with the view that …
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Our model studies the evolution of productivity growth in a competitive industry. The exogenous wage rate determines … the firms' engagement in labour productivity enhancing process innovation. There is a unique steady state of the industry …
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Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more …
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efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …
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While innovation is argued to create value, private incentives of firms to innovate are driven by what part of the value created firms can appropriate. In this paper we explore the relation between innovation and the markups a firm is able to extract after innovating. We estimate firm-specific...
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