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In the past few decades, East Asia has become a key player in the global value chains of products that are consumed in Western markets. In this paper, we discuss how idiosyncratic shocks propagate through global value chains, and assess how this has affected East Asian countries' vulnerability...
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This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
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This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079420
the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …
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After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and the econometrician. We document the two uses that have been made of these data: the construction of...
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his description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100452
his description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100458
total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the Quebec manufacturing sector. This allows us to investigate more fully the …: 1) the contemporaneous impact of environmental regulation on productivity is negative, 2) the opposite result is …
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We consider the response to incentives as an explanation for productivity differences within a firm that paid its … workers piece rates. We provide a framework within which observed productivity differences can be decomposed into two parts … incentives than did the men, the average difference is not statistically significant. The productivity differential that men …
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In this report, we estimate returns to training (in terms of wages and productivity) using data from the Workplace and … training on wages is fairly constant across all age groups, we find that the returns to classroom training on productivity … age might be because firms first train workers for which productivity gains will be the highest. Nous estimons dans cette …
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