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lowers long-run aggregate productivity by 5% in a benchmark model. Forcing all firms to apply the same cost of capital would …
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Chilean encaje, the model yields higher aggregate misallocation with larger effects on exporters and high-productivity firms …
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How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
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-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary … in-house knowledge and show that it is associated with increased growth and industry switching. We rationalize this …-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …
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high-growth entrepreneurs. Our respondents together account for nearly $1 trillion in assets under management. Each …
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GDP is a closely watched indicator of the current health of the economy and an important tool of economic policy. It has been called one of the great inventions of the 20th Century. It is not, however, a persuasive indicator of individual wellbeing or economic progress. There have been calls to...
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of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in …We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares … services have also grown significantly in terms of both value-added share and productivity. The results are robust to different …
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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affects an industry's own TFP growth and innovation. Our estimates suggest that a substantial share of the productivity … productivity growth has been disappointing since the 1970s. We propose and empirically explore the hypothesis that slow growth …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …
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