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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Compositionand the Measurement of Labor Productivityin the U.S. Trucking Industry

Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940s and 1950s, the trucking industry today appearsto be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are duesimply to changes...

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Die Produktivität der Arbeit im Sowjet-Rußland : [Uebersetzung aus dem Russischen]

Lomow, A. - 1919

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Die Entwicklung des zivilen Luftverkehrs in der UdSSR

Gumpel, Werner - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 43 (1963) 10, pp. 435-440

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Lohnstückkosten im internationalen Vergleich: Kostenwettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Industrie in Zeiten multipler Krisen

Schröder, Christoph - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 49 (2022) 3, pp. 45-66

-Vergleichs und um 8 Prozent höher als im Euro-Ausland. Die hierzulande überdurchschnittlich hohe Produktivität der Industrie reichte … Lohnstückkostenposition der deutschen Industrie von unterschiedlichen Entwicklungen geprägt. Nach den enormen Verschlechterungen in den 1990er … Lohnstückkosten der deutschen Industrie gegenüber dem ersten Halbjahr 2021 indes wieder um fast 5 Prozent an, während sie im Euro …

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Foreign direct investment, competition and industry performance

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger - 2008

This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and country level data for 17 OECD countries over the period 1973 to 2001. Controlling for national and international knowledge spillovers we argue that effects of FDI work through...

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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2009

Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the R. Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This...

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Self selection and post-entry effects of exports: Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Serti, Francesco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2007

Our paper adds empirical evidence on the causal effects of exporting on firms' performances. Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, we test the self-selection and the post-entry effects hypotheses with respect to various firms' characteristics. Our analysis supports the idea that...

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Characterizing the production process: A disaggregated analysis of Italian manufacturing firms

Bottazzi, Giulio; Grazzi, Marco; Secchi, Angelo - 2005

This paper provides a description of the production process by comparing different frameworks in which to analyze the relations between inputs and output. The analyses are performed on a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We employ both parametric and non-parametric analysis....

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ICT, skills, and organisational change: Evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms

Giuri, Paola; Torrisi, Salvatore; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2005

This paper explores how firms' skills and organizational change affect the returns from investments in ICT. Our work contributes to the literature by testing the hypothesis of complementarity in a panel of 540 Italian manufacturing firms during 1995-2000. By drawing on different statistical...

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International sectoral spillovers: An empircal analysis for German and US Industries

Smolny, Werner - 1995

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to control for sector-specific differences in human...

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