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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?

Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - 2013

simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students … studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD students are an asset in terms of publications. Those studying for a … members increases publications however it may not increase the publications per capita and is department specific. …

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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes

Syverson, Chad - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...

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Digitalization: Prices of goods and services

Chu, Vivian; Dahlhaus, Tatjana; Hajzler, Christopher - 2023

What are the implications of digitalization for prices? This paper explores this question by looking at the various channels through which digitalization can affect prices. First, we assess the importance of the direct channel - the prices of digital goods and services in the consumer price...

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Financial structure and corporate growth evidence from Italian panel data

Giannangeli, Silvia; Fagiolo, Giorgio; Molinari, Massimo - 2008

We study the relationships between firm financial structure and growth for a large sample of Italian firms (1998-2003). We expand upon existing analyses testing whether liquidity constraints affect firm performance by considering among growth determinants also firm debt structure. Panel...

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Differentials in market constraints and value addition among micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet Nam

Ngoc Ngo, Christine; Chi, Miao - 2017

This paper analyses the differentials of productive values in Vietnamese micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and how market constraints have hindered their performance. Quantitative analyses suggest substantial differences in value addition among manufacturing MSMEs, and the crucial...

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No Shortage of Profit: Technological Change, Chip 'Shortages', and Capital Accumulation in the Semiconductor Business

Mouré, Christopher - 2022

Rapid technological change is often touted as a fundamental reality of capitalist societies. It is also often presented as concrete evidence for the supposed progressive improvement of material well-being that characterises the capitalist system of social order. Since its emergence in the...

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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004

We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …

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Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2005

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …

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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter: estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009

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 multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...

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