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relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …
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structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
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. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …
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reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …
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productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and …
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The paper presents new stylized facts on the direction of capital flows. We find (i) international capital flows net of government debt and/or official aid are positively correlated with growth; (ii) sovereign debt flows are negatively correlated with growth only if debt is financed by another...
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …
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