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exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …
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?s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment?s outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
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This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
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(NAIRU) by using information contained in the trend of productivity growth. My approach enhances the recently proposed model … to alternative statistical assumptions. In economic terms, the productivity-augmented model generates a more realistic … productivity growth trend. I find support for the ?level? hypothesis in both the US and international data. …
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I assert that air pollution from nitrogen oxides affects the productivity of employees in Mexican court hearings. This … is the first article analyzing this connection and the first to disentangle work-breaks from the productivity of white … productivity and identify causality from panel and instrumental variable techniques. Results show a loss of 3.83 workdays during …
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We study the impact of broadband availability on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms' productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …
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, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …
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