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Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017 - First version: November 2015, this version: March 29, 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers, and productivity

Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019

may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

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Urban-Biased Structural Change

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Employee spinouts, social networks, and family firms

Rauch, James E. - 2013

, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a …

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The impact of trade liberalization on industrial productivity

Segerstrom, Paul Stephen; Sugita, Yoichi - 2013 - First version: June 22, 2012, Current version: June 28, 2013

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

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