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Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to productivity growth, is … important both because it affects how we model and interpret aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure … reallocation and productivity dynamics for the U.S. and other countries comes from a single industry: manufacturing. Building upon …
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship of economic growth to the education levels of the labor force. The emphasis is on Ben-Porath's contribution to some of the issues in this field: the endogeneity of schooling, the role of the public sector as an `absorber' of educated labor,...
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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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Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity …-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers' productivity and the distribution of earnings across lawyers reflects lawyers' ability to … productivity and earnings distributions in this industry is substantial but not dramatic, reflecting the fact that the problems …
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relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and … productivity of establishments. We find that firms that re-engineer their workplaces to incorporate more high performance practices …
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the impact of workplace practices, information technology and human capital investments on productivity. We estimate an … within and GMM estimators. We find that what is associated with higher productivity is not so much whether or not an employer … practices that promote joint decision making coupled with incentive based compensation have higher productivity than other …
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This paper presents a new, dynamic economic model of criminal activity. Individuals are endowed with legal and criminal human capital. Potential incomes in legal and criminal sectors depend on the level of the relevant human capital, the rate of return, and random shocks. Both types of human...
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The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...
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While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also …
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Government subsidies have driven rapid growth in U.S. wind and solar generation. Using data on hourly outputs and prices for 25 wind and nine solar generating plants, some results of those subsidies are studied in detail: the value of these plants' outputs, the variability of output at plant and...
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