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Favoritism and firms : micro evidence and macro implications
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2022
also experience increases in sales per worker, wages, and measured total factor productivity. These effects are short …
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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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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
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Firms left behind : emigration and firm productivity
Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017
total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …
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The real exchange rate in the long run : Balassa-Samuelson effects reconsidered
Bordo, Michael D.; Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Fazio, Giorgio; … - 2014
Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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Do natural resources depress income per capita?
Arezki, Rabah; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010
Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...
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Determinants of direct democracy
Fiorino, Nadia (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2007
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Taxation and foreign direct investment : a synthesis of empirical research
Mooij, Ruud A. de; Ederveen, Sjef - 2001
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the impact of company taxes on the allocation of foreign direct investment. We make the outcomes of 25 empirical studies comparable by computing the tax rate elasticity under a uniform definition. The mean value of the tax rate elasticity in the...
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...
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