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Let's Switch to the Cloud : Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity

Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022

The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...

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Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature – the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John - 2004

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages … highly profitable enterprises that are more likely to grow and pay higher wages. Using multiple establishment-level data sets … barely lost. The analysis finds small impacts on all outcomes that we examine; estimates for wages are close to zero. The …

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Exceptional Exporter Performance : Cause, Effect, or Both?

Bernard, Andrew B. - 1997

relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …

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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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International Value-Added Linkages in Development Accounting

Cuñat, Alejandro - 2018

We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the...

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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics

Mrazova, Monika - 2019

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...

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The Linear Algebra of Economic Geography Models

Kleinman, Benny; Liu, Ernest; Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

wages in each location with respect to productivity shocks in all locations. They are readily computed using commonly …

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Deep Trade Agreements and Heterogeneous Firms Exports

Neri-Lainé, Matteo; Orefice, Gianluca; Ruta, Michele - 2023

This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms’ exports. Using detailed information on the content of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the depth of trade agreements matters for the export...

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What's Driving the New Economy : The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Black, Sandra E. - 2000

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … establishments. When we examine the determinants of wages within these establishments, we find that re-engineering a workplace to … incorporate more high performance practices leads to higher wages. However, increasing the usage of profit sharing or stock …

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