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Multinationals' Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by … rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …

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Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models

Bauer, Thomas; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences in observed characteristics and a part attributable to differences in the estimated...

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A Bargaining Model of Farrell Inefficiency

Haskel, Jonathan; Sanchis, Amparo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An enormous number of empirical papers have estimated technical efficiency, the distance of firms inside a frontier, following the model of Farrell (1957). We propose a theory that explains the distance these empirical papers seek to measure. The theory is based on the idea that workers can...

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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Growth and Agglomeration

Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper presents a model in which growth and geographic agglomeration of economic activities are mutually self reinforcing processes. Industrial agglomeration in one location spurs growth because it reduces the cost of innovation in that location through a pecuniary externality due to...

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Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This unified theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...

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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued here that technological progress in the household...

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General Purpose Technology and Within-Group Inequality

Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper develops a theoretical model to analyse how a General Purpose Technology (GPT) shapes within-group wage inequality when workers are ex-ante equal, but their adaptability to new technologies is subject to stochastic factors that are history dependent. It is argued that the diffusion of...

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Technical Progress, Global Imbalances and World Economic Recovery Without Inflation

Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

which technical progress is rapid in Asia. In the case of export-biased productivity growth there are cheaper imports and …

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Technology Shocks and Job Flows

Lopez-Salido, Jose David; Michelacci, Claudio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We decompose the low-frequency movements in labour productivity into an investment-neutral and investment …

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