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likely to shut down, grow faster and contribute disproportionately to aggregate job creation and productivity growth compared …
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structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
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relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …
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. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …
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The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by … rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …
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The recent emergence in the industrial organization literature of a wave of studies identifying small firms as being at least as innovative as their larger counterparts poses something of a paradox. Where do small firms get their knowledge generating inputs? The purpose of this paper is to link...
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worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this …
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In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity …
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Survey information on Swiss exporters is used to test the hypothesis that firm-specific factors, in particular firm size, are important determinants of pricing--to-market (PTM). The survey asked exporters whether they set different prices across markets and, if so, whether price segmentation...
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Stochastic frontier production functions are estimated for Bulgarian (1993–5) and Romanian (1994–5) manufacturing industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across industrial sectors in each country. We find strong...
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