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We study learning by doing (LBD) by New York City taxi drivers, who have substantial discretion over their driving strategies and receive compensation closely tied to their success in finding customers. In addition to documenting significant learning by these entrepreneurial agents, we exploit...
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growth between 2001 and 2006 along with productivity levels and productivity growth below the U.S. average. The region …
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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …
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German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …
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We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...
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mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …
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linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …
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hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …
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