significant positive impactson productivity as measured by value-added per worker, especially for firms with femaleprincipal … owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by usinginformation on the regional presence of … averageregional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoptionimproves value-added per worker by …

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour marketrigidity in the determination … sectorsand that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technologysectors. We use this index in …

proposes a simple theory ofskill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross-country, historical andmicro …

trend (purely externalnon-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters).We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … to producer specificexternal economic factors. These exogenous technology shifters are aggregated (via hedonicaggregator …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies’productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting … lowtechsector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assetsappears vital for the productivity of …

of the standard Solow productivity residual. Theequivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while … does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculatethe contributions of disaggregated units …-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding furtherassumptions about technology and market structure (firms minimize costs …

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