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Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, Joao Paulo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …
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Span of Control and Span of Activity
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...
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Why Has China Grown So Fast? The Role of International Technology Transfer
Reenen, John Van; Yueh, Linda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
joint ventures have large effects on productivity especially when combined with a technology transfer component. We estimate …
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …
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Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
locate across regions with distinct distributions of workers and wages. Firm technologies which best match regional labor … markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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