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expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …
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We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versus flexicurity - affect technology adoption in unionised firms. We consider both trade unions' incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology, and firms' incentives to invest in such technology. We find...
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macroeconomic outcomes of a hump-shaped life-cycle profile in labour productivity, whilst in the second extension we postulate a …
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Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …
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industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ … significantly from the case of homogeneous firms. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; R&D ; productivity ; market …
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pharmaceutical R&D expenditure, drug prices, aggregate productivity, and income. The analysis suggests that both an increase in the …-sharing and entry barriers in the pharmaceutical sector also affect aggregate productivity and wage rates. -- aggregate … productivity ; cost-sharing ; entry deregulation ; health insurance ; pharmaceutical innovation …
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models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …
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Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …
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