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La productividad en la industria española: Evidencia microeconómica
Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - EconWPA - 2005
El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...
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On Multinational Firms, Diffusion of Skills and Development
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
I study the implications for the development of a country hosting of multinational firms. The paper argues that despite the negative impact on existing local firms, the presence of foreign firms induce the emergence of a new sector of domestic firms and that in the long term, the country to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069334
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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data
Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005
introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …
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Endogenous Growth through Firm Entry, Exit and Imitation
Gabler, Alain; Licandro, Omar - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
A simple dynamic general equilibrium model is set up in which firms face idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Firms whose productivity has fallen too low exit, and entrants try to imitate the practice of existing firms, so that the expected productivity of entering firms is a function of current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051250
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Child Labor and Fertility
Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003
This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents, who raise and educate children for both financial and...
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
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