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Regional economic divide and the role of technological spillovers in Italy. Evidence from microdata
Aiello, Francesco; Cardamone, Paola - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2012) 3, pp. 205-220
This paper assesses the impact of Research and Development (R&D) efforts on production in the North and Centre-South of Italy by using a panel of 1,203 manufacturing firms over the period 1998–2003. The estimations are based on a nonlinear translog production function augmented by a measure of...
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The German minimum wage : effects on productivity, profitability, and investments
Bossler, Mario; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 2/3, pp. 321-350
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Profit, accumulation, and crisis : long-term movement of the profit rate in China, Japan, and the United States
Li, Minqi - In: The Chinese economy 50 (2017) 6, pp. 381-404
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Chapter 65 Microeconometric Models of Investment and Employment
Bond, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4417-4498). 2007
We survey recent microeconometric research on investment and employment that has used panel data on individual firms or … theory of the demand for capital and labour, on which most of the econometric models of investment and employment that we … of adjustment, which have played a prominent role especially in the microeconometric literature on investment. With …
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External Effects as a Microeconomic Determinant of Innovation Efficiency
Grupp, Hariolf - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 4 (1997) 2, pp. 173-188
paper introduces a new data source on German businesses making possible new variables for innovation, spillover, investment …
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Regulation, Competition and Productivity Convergence
Conway, Paul; de Rosa, Donato; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2006
This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The empirical results indicate that restrictive product market regulations slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across...
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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia
Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia
Azzopardi, Damien; Lenain, Patrick; Molnár, Margit; … - 2020
Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...
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Technological diffusion and managing the associated economic transitions in Ireland
Seitani, Haruki; Westmore, Ben - 2020
Technological change is transforming Ireland’s economic structures, leading to new jobs and innovative products that benefit consumers. Adoption of new technologies by businesses has been high relative to many other OECD economies, but it has been uneven across industries and the impact on...
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Reducing skills imbalances to foster productivity growth of Malaysia
Espinoza, Ricardo; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
To enjoy the same success in the future as in the past, Malaysia will need to ensure that more people develop the right skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students and adults in developing critical skills and...
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