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. The firm data are informative on labor productivity. The matched data provide the skill composition in different markets …. Together this allows us to investigate how the mean difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the …
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productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …
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data on firm-level productivity, employment growth and firm survival, we argue that these approaches are also suitable for …
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We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …
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interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of heterogeneous home owners while controlling for interactions …
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
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This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …
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This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...
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simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …
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productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign … aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth consistent with the …
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