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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
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The idea that market selection promotes survival and expansion of the “fittest” producersis a key principle underlying theories of competition. Yet, despite its intuitive appeal, thehypothesis that companies with superior productivity also exhibit higher growth lacks em-pirical support. One...
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The practice of firms co-creating products and services with their customers has a long history in business markets and, with advances in information technology, is now gaining increasing popularity in consumer markets as well. In this research we study the incentives of competing firms to...
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The study focused on the analysis of production and marketing constraints of tomato among rural farmers in Talensi … tomato farmers were males. Moreover, 55% of the respondents have no access to basic education. 15% have access to primary and … 11% to Senior high School and lastly 4% to tertiary institution which means more than half of the tomato farmers were …
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.5%, 1%, and 2% PA/ddH 2 O (v/v)) application on tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ‘Scotia’) plant growth and fruit quality under ….001) enhanced tomato fruit juice Brix, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, and titratable acidity. Additionally, total … obtained with the 0.5% and 0.1% PA treatments. Additionally, PA treatment of the tomato plants resulted in a significantly (p …
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