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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
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Productivity of ICT and Non-ICT Capital – The Role of Rates of Return and Capital Prices
Niebel, Thomas - 2012
We investigate the role rates of return and rates of asset price decline play in explaining sources of productivity growth in the context of a growth accounting approach. Our analysis is based on data from the EU KLEMS database for seven countries in the period of 1990-2007. We introduce a...
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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Split-Award Auctions and Supply Disruptions
Fugger, Nicolas; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2021
Problem definition: We consider a buyer that needs to source a fixed quantity. She faces several potential suppliers that might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose between single-sourcing and multi-sourcing. If contract...
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
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Supply and Demand for Telecommunication Infrastructure
Veith, Tobias - 2010
The interplay of infrastructure supply and demand is of central interest in line with Web 2.0. As the role of customers …, simultaneously, customers' demand for high-quality infrastructure. On the other hand, infrastructure providers carry investment risks … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service …
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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
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Social Infrastructure and Productivity of Manufacturing Firms – Evidence from Pakistan
Ahmed, Riaz - 2016
Does investment in social infrastructure affect the productivity of manufacturing firms in developing countries? To … test this question, I empirically investigate the impact of social infrastructure indicators at district level on firm … regions with better infrastructure equipment. My findings reveal that indicators of health and education are positively and …
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