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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?
Viollaz, Mariana - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926543
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047318
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brantly; Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315864
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007
equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777491
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International Outsourcing under Monopolistic Competition : Winners and Losers
Do, Viet Dung - 2007
We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country … and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the … subsidy may improve welfare. We also extend the model to a two-period framework. Delaying outsourcing can be gainful because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776626
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Redistributive Income Taxation under Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment
Aronsson, Thomas - 2010
This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143345
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2021
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316274
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120903
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The Optimal Energy Mix in Power Generation and the Contribution from Natural Gas in Reducing Carbon Emissions to 2030 and Beyond
Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo; Longden, Thomas; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper analyses a set of new scenarios for energy markets in Europe to evaluate the consistency of economic incentives and climate objectives. It focuses in particular on the role of natural gas across a range of climate policy scenarios (including the Copenhagen Pledges and the EU Roadmap)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701083
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The Impact of Recent Chemotherapy Innovation on the Longevity of Myeloma Patients: U.S. and International Evidence
Lichtenberg, Frank; Hostenkamp, Gisela - CESifo - 2013
There were no innovations in chemotherapy for myeloma patients during the period 1977-1997, but there have been several important innovations since 1997. We investigate the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma patients using both time-series U.S. data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723537