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markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from...
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We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and innovation – in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain aggregated at the Travel-to-Work Area level. We find...
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United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …
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This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …
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We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …
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companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …
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-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …
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