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Germany's Capacities to Work from Home
Alipour, Jean-Victor; Falck, Oliver; Schüller, Simone - 2020
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and administrative data to compute measures for the feasibility of working from home among German employees....
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Germany's Capacities to Work from Home
Alipour, JV - 2020
We propose an index of working from home (WfH) capacity for industries and counties in the German economy. Our analysis draws on individual-level survey information and administrative employment statistics. We find that overall 56 percent of jobs are suitable for part-time or fulltime remote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836712
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179786
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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth
DeStefano, Timothy; Kneller, Richard; Timmis, Jonathan - 2020
Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227646
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316793