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productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
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results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …
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Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …
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The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980’s, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
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This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers...
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This paper documents the importance of consumer taste in trade flows using Belgian firm-product customs data by destination. We identify consumer taste through the use of a control function approach and estimate it jointly with other demand parameters using a very flexible demand specification....
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robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …
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How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …
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