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Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics … for exogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are state variables, and productivity … follows a first-order Markov process. We extend the framework further by allowing exporting to be an additional control …
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-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … of imperfections. Clear differences in behavior between firms that serve the foreign market either through exporting or … the labor supply side (workers' bargaining power).But exporting firms where search frictions are inducing wages to vary …
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We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures ofperformance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of businessenvironment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely onexternal and aggregated proxy measures of...
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Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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forexogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are statevariables, and productivity follows a …
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We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
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We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity … migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens of a derived "productivity-wage gap" that captures the difference in … complementarities between the two groups or, at least, positive mutual sorting of these groups into higher productivity firms …
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This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …
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