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Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
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Especially in developing countries credit constraints are often perceived as one of the most important market frictions constraining firm innovation and growth. Huge amounts of public money are being devoted to the removal of such constraints but their effectiveness is still subject to an...
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The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …
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This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of ln earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …
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. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. We make some …
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panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …
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competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs …
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chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of …
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