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I review a contemporary branch of the informal sector literature that focus on understanding the way firm behavior is affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this group all make use of dynamic general equilibrium...
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This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …
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We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain … age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fixed effects estimators applied to raw data do not … guarantee consistent estimates of age-productivity profiles. In our data, this method strongly over-estimates the productivity …
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structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
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concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the individual, enterprise, and macro levels. The …, workforce productivity, and economic performance. Taken as a whole, the articles dispel some of the concerns, sharpen our …
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In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …
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increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …
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unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …
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