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Factor utilization in Indian manufacturing : a look at the World Bank investment climate surveys data
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Pakes, Ariel - 2008
"We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740412
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Competition, globalization and the decline of inflation
Chen, Natalie - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013424520
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Does history matter for the relationship between R&D, innovation and productivity?
Huergo Orejas, Elena; Moreno Martín, Lourdes - 2010
This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation and productivity growth, taking into account the possibility of persistence in firms’ behaviour. We study this relationship for a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1990 and 2005, estimating a model with four...
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The wage-productivity nexus in the world factory economy
Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica; Yu, Xiaodan - 2019
This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity nexus from a micro level perspective using...
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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline
Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017
The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's …, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy …. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing plants, in contrast, rose by over 5 percentage points. We reconcile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688202
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; 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...
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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters : evidence from Vietnam
Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014
In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data source from Vietnam for 2002 to 2007, a period of significant transition. We address issues of simultaneity, self-selection and endogenous location choice of firms in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337668
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Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in the market liberalization period of Bolivia
Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; Birbuet, Juan Cristóbal - 2009
This paper analyzes productivity levels, dispersion and growth in the Bolivian Manufacturing Sector during the Market Liberalization Period: 1988-2001. These years are characterized first, by a period of macroeconomic stabilization and 1st Generation Reforms (1988-1993), second, by a period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901138
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Trade and profitability: is there an export premium? : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms
Grazzi, Marco - 2009
more standard within the empirical trade literature, by regression techniques that try to identify an “export premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736330
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Learning to export and learning by exporting : the case of Ethiopian manufacturing
Siba, Eyerusalem; Gebreeyesus, Mulu - 2014
In this study, we investigate the relationship between exporting and firm performance using a longer panel dataset of Ethiopian manufacturing firms for the period 1996 - 2009. We test two hypotheses regarding exporting: selection into exporting versus learning by exporting. According to the...
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