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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703184
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"Fach"-Kräfte für die Arbeit der Zukunft
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Die künftige Entwicklung am Arbeitsmarkt ist von drei Megatrends geprägt: Einer Verlagerung unternehmerischer Verantwortung und Risiken auf Arbeitnehmer, steigenden fachlichen Qualifikationsanforderungen und einem drastischen Rückgang des Erwerbspersonenpotentials infolge des demographischen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283563
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Creative Destruction and Transition: The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762424
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652531
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233911
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Kato, Takao; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
enhances productivity and quality through mechanisms including employees becoming better motivated, more informed and paying … greater attention to product details, we find that membership in offline teams: (i) initially enhances individual productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761809
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762398
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233841
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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
conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …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 …
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