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productivity by as much as 6%, suggesting large "productivity costs" of business cycles. …
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's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …
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spillovers on firm-level productivity are extensively studied in applied work, but not in the context of resource misallocation …
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The knowledge society is characterized by knowledge becoming a kind of commodity that can be traded and priced. Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are representative for such a knowledge-based economy, since their main input and output factor is directly related to knowledge itself....
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In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We … and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate into …
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an efficient work organization. In this article it is analyzed the evolution of the productivity and employment levels in … labor productivity is also the pointer of the quality of life in a economy, therefore it represents the value produced by … the work. Moreover, the total factors productivity is the measure of the technological and organizational progress (don …
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associated with lower productivity growth and, hence, lower economic growth in the coming years. This paper studies the issue …, focusing on the dynamics of entrepreneurship and productivity around the time of the Great Recession. The author looks first at … the recent evolution of alternative measures of entrepreneurship and of productivity, and then analyzes the relationship …
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-down approach of Diewert and Yu (2012). Inputs and outputs are measured and used to estimate the quarterly total factor productivity …
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profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link … between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take …
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The aim of the paper is to measure the efficiency of an industry, and to decompose it into firm efficiencies—which indicate how close firms approximate best practices—and an organization efficiency—which indicates the degree of optimality of the number of firms and their distribution. The...
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