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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization
Guadalupe, Maria - 2008
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...
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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable
Baldwin, Richard - 2020
service-led development path may become the norm rather than the exception; think India, not China. Since success in the …
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Not a Typical Firm : The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital–Labor Substitution
Hubmer, Joachim; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The decline in the U.S. labor share is far from uniform across firms. While the aggregate labor share has declined, especially in manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, the labor share of a typical firm in these industries has risen. This paper studies the dynamics of the substitution of capital...
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Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs : Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity
Aum, Sangmin - 2018
Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...
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Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity : A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data
Kremp, Elisabeth - 2004
In modern knowledge driven economies, firms are increasingly aware that individual and collective knowledge is a major factor of economic performance. The larger the firms and the stronger their connection with technology intensive industries, the more are they likely to set up knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468456
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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
Hulten, Charles R. - 1999
We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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Infrastructure Investment and Labor Monopsony Power
Brooks, Wyatt; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Kondo, Illenin O.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
using an expansion of the national highway system in India. Using panel data on manufacturing firms, we find that monopsony …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing : A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2008
We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization : Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe - 2006
We study the effects of the progressive elimination of the system of industrial regulations on entry and production, known as the "license raj," on registered manufacturing output, employment, entry and investment across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are...
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