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Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - 2013

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

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Productivity Response to a Contract Change

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; de Véricourt, Francis - 2014

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

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Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - 2014

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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Growing Productivity without Growing Wages: The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017

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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The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach

Bernard, Andrew B.; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; … - 2019

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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The importance of consumer taste in trade

Aw, Bee Yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

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 firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

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The turnaround of the Swedish economy: lessons from large business sector reforms

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

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