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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703134
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514865
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. Except for low-technology … manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …
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