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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks
Burda, Michael C; Severgnini, Battista - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
measurement error of the Solow residual (Solow 1957) as a measure of total factor productivity (TFP) growth when the capital stock …
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
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Changes in the Functional Structure of Firms and the Demand for Skill
Maurin, Eric; Thesmar, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We describe and analyse the changes in the occupational structure of French manufacturing firms between 1984 and 1995. Firms employ a much greater proportions of engineers and researchers working on the design and marketing of new products and a much lower proportion of high-skilled experts...
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Organizations and Trade
Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
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Where did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But … our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income … distribution enjoyed a growth rate of real wage and salary income equal to or above the average rate of economy-wide productivity …
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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years
Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …
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Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries
Machin, Steve; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
computerization instead of R&D as a measure of technology; (iv) in the Anglo-Saxon countries a maximum of one-third of the aggregate …
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Investment and Usage of New Technologies: Evidence from a Shared ATM Network
Degryse, Hans; Ferrari, Stijn; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment...
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