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thousands of people 15 years or over. The Human capital is defined by the Employment in Technology and Knowledge …
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...
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This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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The present study investigates various issues related to farm competitiveness, using viability indicators, such as Net Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship between productivity, farm typology and farm size....
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occupational employment structure within sectors explains much of the sectoral differences. …
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