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of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence … productivity is declining sharply. A good example is Moore's Law. The number of researchers required today to achieve the famous … increases in research effort that offset its declining productivity …
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In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...
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. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of … with frictions lowering aggregate management quality and productivity …
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untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity … manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality has increased … between firms (and within industries). Increased productivity dispersion appears to be linked with new technologies as …
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When labour market competition is imperfect, positive industry (and firm) productivity shocks can be passed through to …-decade-long productivity boom. There was a thirteen-fold increase in real output per worker between 1980 and 2018, compared to a four … whether this productivity increase has been shared with employees, we find that auto workers experienced far stronger hourly …
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National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend. Using near population data from the Economic Censuses, we confirm and extend existing evidence on national...
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the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …
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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …
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We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade...
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productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …
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