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One Size Does Not Fit All : TFP in the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Three European Countries
Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021
-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both …-level productivity negatively, high-leverage firms suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy, when they are relatively small … productivity …
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On the Productivity Advantage of Cities
Jacob, Nick - 2020
Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical evidence on agglomeration externalities rests on measures obtained using firm … suggests that the revenue productivity advantage of denser areas is mainly driven by higher prices charged rather than …-level differences in productivity across space …
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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314751
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892227
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Labour disputes and the game of legal representation
Fraisse, Henri - 2010
This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
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Productivity, Place, and Plants : Revisiting the Measurement
Schoefer, Benjamin; Ziv, Oren - 2021
Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …
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An Analysis of the Impact of Public Infrastructure on Productivity Performance of Mexican Industry
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. - 2021
infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316826
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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
, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …
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Population Aging, Retirement, and Aggregate Productivity
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2023
suggests a negative effect on total factor productivity. Using newly collected longitudinal data on pensioners, we quantify … pensioner-worker ratio decreases factor productivity by 5-6%. The effect is stronger when production is labor intensive and …
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