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Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with detailed waterworks information. Identification is aided by...
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between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a …
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Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation …
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We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and …
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, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge …
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In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...
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