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Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …
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Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639301
use a dynamic model to measure the impact of large entrants on productivity, allowing for a controlled productivity …, we find that incumbents' productivity increase after large entry and that the magnitude of the increase declines with the … productivity of incumbents. Our findings highlight that large entrants play a crucial role in driving productivity growth. …
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I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....
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This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … located in central and non-central markets respectively. The results show an approximately 10 percent higher productivity … markets. The findings also show that employee characteristics do not contribute to the productivity of stores in central …
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The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: <p> •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data <p> •the...</p></p>
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indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological … Sweden 1900–35. The results show that during the productivity boom of the 1920s, the constant prices for electric motors … high productivity growth in the industry producing electric motors 1920–29. In contrast to Sweden, the US annual total …
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Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
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