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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth : key labor market institutions, and the policies that shape them, affect the restructuring that leads to...

Henrekson, Magnus - 2014

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...

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Effect of international activity on firm performance : trade liberalization benefits better performing firms and contributes to economic growth

Wagner, Joachim - 2014

There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...

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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...

Syverson, Chad - 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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Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale economies in the non-life insurance market in South Africa

Alhassan, Abdul Latif; Biekpe, Nicholas - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 40 (2015) 3, pp. 493-515

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G20 Seminar on assessing the impact of structural reforms (Banque de France, 1 June 2015)

Cabrillac, Bruno; Haincourt, Sophie; Rivaud, Sophie - In: Banque de France bulletin / Quarterly selection of articles 39 (2015), pp. 49-60

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …

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Effects of cultural diversity on economic performance in Russian regions

Limonov, Leonid Ė.; Nesena, Marina - 2015

its role in the creation of new knowledge suggest that productivity of knowledge creation in a region with a homogeneous …

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Management as a technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

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Business cycles in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries : an RBC approach

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2009

and data series show that the major drop in output was due to productivity. In addition, the timing of the banking reforms …

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The effect of pollution on worker productivity : evidence from call-center workers in China

Chang, Tom; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Gross, Tal; … - 2016

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …

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