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to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix …
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industries. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. …
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literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex … robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …
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The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …
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STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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workers contribute positively. We propose a theoretical model, highlighting the relationship between demographics, innovation …
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explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
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concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker … productivity increases by 2.8 percent with a ten percent increase in cluster size, the share of the software engineering community … in a technology field located in the same city. Instrumental variable and dynamic estimation results suggest these …
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This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for … 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 …
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