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, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
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identified. Our point estimates differ from those of existing methods and changes in our preferred productivity estimator perform …
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Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …
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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects. Some evidence suggests that nursing homes in less competitive local …
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We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...
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In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …
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to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … to be more mixed and modest than expected. We suggest that this in fact should not be surprising, since economic theory …
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compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased … change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, but … constituted an important source of the decline in productivity. Employees with children living at home increased hours worked more …
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, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …
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