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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique 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 …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …
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Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models
Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences in observed characteristics and a part attributable to differences in the estimated...
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822293
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China’s urban areas absorb migrant workers …
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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries
Chung, Yeimin; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar …
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis
Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological progress in the household sector can...
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