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Wage dispersion and firm productivity in different working environments

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More precisely, it examines the interaction with: i) the skills of the workforce, using a more appropriate indicator than the standard distinction between white- and blue collar workers,...

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...

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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; de Wind, Joris - 2010

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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Productive Benefits of Health : Evidence from Low-Income Countries

Schultz, T. Paul - 2005

components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d?Ivoire and Brazil suggest that the health human capital effect on …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross country evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2005

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment: definition and results for the UK market sector

Clayton, Tony; Dal Borgo, Mariela; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we … could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second …

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