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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
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Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds
Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper analyzes the decision of a group of specialized workers to form a guild and block the adoption of a new technology that does not require their specialized input. The theory predicts an inverted-U relation between guilds and market size: for small markets, firm profits are insufficient...
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Wage Gaps and Job Sorting in African Manufacturing
Benhassine, Najy; Fafchamps, Marcel; Söderbom, Måns - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Using matched employer-employee data from eleven African countries, we investigate if there is job sorting in African labor markets. We find that much of the wage gap correlated with education is driven by selection across occupations and firms. This is consistent with educated workers being...
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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
Coe, David T; Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124193
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Financial Reforms and Capital Flows: Insights from General Equilibrium
Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge … additional resources that flow to high-productivity firms after the reforms. We show that some of these resources do not come … from abroad, but instead from domestic low-productivity firms that are driven out of business as a result of the reforms …
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Structural Development Accounting
Gancia, Gino A; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level
Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …
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The new empirical economics of management
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
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Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States
Broadberry, Stephen N; Wagner, Karin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
overall production strategy and productivity trends. In the United States a strategy of standardized mass production led to … high levels of labour productivity and concentration on the development of managerial capabilities, but neglect of the … environment. British manufacturing also adopted an American style `mission oriented' approach to R&D in contrast to the German …
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Wage Bargaining and the Boundaries of the Multinational Firm
Bas, Maria; Carluccio, Juan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Do variations in labor market institutions across countries affect the cross-border organization of the firm? Using firm-level data on multinationals located in France, we show that firms are more likely to outsource the production of intermediate inputs to external suppliers when importing from...
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