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Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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Why Has China Grown So Fast? The Role of International Technology Transfer
Reenen, John Van; Yueh, Linda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
joint ventures have large effects on productivity especially when combined with a technology transfer component. We estimate … that without International joint ventures China's growth would have been about one percentage point lower per annum over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649755
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Accounting for Research and Productivity Growth Across Industries
Ngai, L. Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
What factors underlie industry differences in research intensity and productivity growth? We develop a multi … consumer preferences. We find that industry differences in both productivity growth and R&D intensity mainly reflect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256487
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Measuring Organization Capital in Japan: An Empirical Assessment Using Firm-Level Data
Kim, YoungGak; Miyagawa, Tsutomu - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
growth of organization capital did not have significant effects on productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150993
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Balanced Growth With Structural Change
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectorsand derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of a balanced aggregate growth path, withall aggregates growing at the same rate, and structural change, characterized by sectoral laborreallocation....
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An R&D-Based Model of Multi-Sector Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the production of sector …-specific knowledge. In the model, we find that long run differences in total factor productivity growth across sectors are independent of …
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Mapping the Two Faces of R&D: Productivity Growth in a Panel of OECD Industries
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000
productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017079
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Sexism at work
Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …
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Working or shirking?
Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact highlighted by phrases like "shirking from home". We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 13,000 employee NASDAQ listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598731
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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599240