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The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
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South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is currently among the highest in the world. While the proximate cause of high unemployment is that...
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The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper proposes a simple...
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, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms … our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the firm …
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frontier production function framework is used to assess the relative productivity of 113 university TTOs. Our field research … variation in TTO efficiency. Relative productivity may also depend on organizational practices in university management of …
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-level productivity evolution and the equilibrium market configuration. A counterfactual experiment reveals that a 15% R&D subsidy …
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productivity in the South and aggregate technology used by the South both turn out to be higher …
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While there is general agreement that technology differences must figure prominently in any successful account of the cross-country income variation, not much is known on the source of these technology differences. This paper examines cross-country income differences in terms of factor...
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in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …
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