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We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …
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The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...
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This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to 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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Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie beauftragte das ifo Institut, den Zusammenhang zwischen sich rasch verändernden Rahmenbedingungen und dem Wandel von Unternehmensstrukturen und -strategien in der Industrie zu untersuchen. Als zentrale Bereiche, die einen wesentlichen...
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Die Betriebe des verarbeitenden Gewerbes (ohne Nahrungs- und Genussmittel) nutzten ihre Produktionsanlagen im September mit 87,7% ebenso intensiv wie zur Jahresmitte. Die Auftragsbestände stiegen von 3,0 Produktionsmonaten auf 3,1 Monate an und wurden als nahezu ausreichend eingeschätzt. Für...
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Which products are potentially produced together? When demand for a product increases, which firms will supply it? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms, we recover a continuous cost-based distance between firms and unproduced products. Higher product distance implies...
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Eine Ende Oktober 1999 durchgeführte Sonderbefragung bestätigte die Schlußfolgerung des ifo Instituts vom April dieses Jahres: Die Jahr 2000-Umstellung dürfte im verarbeitenden Gewerbe zu keinen größeren Beeinträchtigungen führen, da die Unternehmen nahezu überall Vorkehrungen getroffen...
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-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …
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emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …
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