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The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing growth has been widely studied in the literature. What has gone unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from...
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on...
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The Rise of the Service Economy
Buera, Francisco J. - 2009
rising relative wages and quantities of high-skilled labor. We develop a theory where demand shifts toward ever more skill …
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The Rise of Services : the Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply
Buera, Francisco J. - 2013
This paper quantifies the roles of increases in the demand for skill-intensive output, the efficient scale of service … progress. The rising scale of services, the rising demand for skill-intensive output, and skill-biased technical change all …
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Rethinking Deindustrialization
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2016
Manufacturing in high-income countries is on the decline and Denmark is no exception. Manufacturing employment and the number of firms have been shrinking as a share of the total and in absolute levels. This paper uses a rich linked employer-employee dataset to examine this decline from 1994 to...
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Corporate Demand for Liquidity
Almeida, Heitor - 2002
This paper proposes a theory of corporate liquidity demand and provides new evidence on corporate cash policies. Firms …
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Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition
Mayer, Thierry - 2016
We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … multi-product firms and derive the specific demand conditions needed to generate these product-mix reallocations. These …
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy
Bento, Pedro - 2018
We construct a new dataset for the average employment size of establishments across sectors and countries from hundreds of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer countries. The cross-country income elasticity of...
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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : a Study of New Zealand Firms
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015
This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New Zealand. Using a large database that links administrative and tax data with survey data, we are able to control for large number of firm characteristics and thus minimise selection...
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